"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off ...

"There really is something very different about how these giant planets form versus how small planets like Earth form." ...

With over 5,000 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — discovered to date, there's a growing interest in locating ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) telescope will be actively looking for traces of life on Earth-like planets in other ...

NASA has officially confirmed over 5,000 exoplanets. These worlds include icy, rocky, and gas planets with unique characteristics. Some could even harbor life. Among the most fascinating are ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

“The planet was just so weird,” says Charbonneau ... data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope. Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been detected since, more than 4,000 of them ...

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

the catalog of extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets," has grown to over 5,000 entries. Many of these exoplanets are like nothing found in our solar system. The hot and ultra-hot Jupiters are prime ...

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...

Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...