Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...

The planet is crumbling so fast due to bombardment from its star that it is losing a "moon's worth" of matter every million years. Soon, it is doomed to vanish entirely. The extrasolar planet ...

Problem is, even nearby earth-like planets are extremely difficult to detect. As a result, most of the extrasolar planets thus far detected are much bigger than tiny earths. They are extrasolar ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

Using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia's ability to ...

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 ...

the study of planets beyond the solar system, or extrasolar planets, or "exoplanets." But reality often doesn't meet expectations. In celebration of three years of exoplanet science from the JWST, ...

The findings could assist astronomers in selecting extrasolar planets or "exoplanets" most likely to be habitable. "Even though it’s the closest planet to us, Venus is important for exoplanet ...

Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT I present a review of astrometric techniques and instrumentation used to search for, detect, and characterize extrasolar planets. First, I briefly summarize ...