Aliens could be crawling around these 45 ‘Earth-like’ planets

Just imagine that whoosh to the UFO stretching out hundreds of millions of Earthly miles (Picture: Getty Images/Metro

Nearly two dozen ‘Earth-like’ planets that could be crawling with alien life have been identified by scientists.

Exoplanets are what scientists call worlds that orbit other stars (though some are ‘rogue planets’ that don’t orbit anything at all).

More than three decades after the first was discovered in 1992, the list of known exoplanets is well over 6,000.

Some are smelly...