Very interesting article!. The term alien planet is not a scientific one, so I think you already answered your own question by saying that it was used in the article to generate more buzz.
In the English language the word is used to describe something that's not familiar, so you could argue that this is in fact an alien planet, but because of the subject in question being an exoplanet I would bet they did this as a technique to get more attention.
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