To help, you’ll have to master the same techniques scientists use to find and characterize exoplanets – worlds orbiting faraway stars.

Exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun, are likely more numerous than the stars themselves. In the last 30 years over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered. These worlds come in all ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new feature in the distribution of planets beyond the solar system, and this finding could help us understand the dynamics that determine the formation of exoplanets ...

The methods used in the detection and characterisation of exoplanets are presented through the study of transiting systems in this unique textbook for advanced undergraduates. From determining the ...

Why is it important to search for exoplanets in triple star systems and how many can we find there? This is what a recent study accepted by Astrophysics & Space Science hopes to address after a ...

While Earth is the only known host of life, astronomers have identified several exoplanets that could potentially support it.

These exoplanets (planets orbiting a star other than our sun) orbit close to red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than the sun, and which make up over 75% of the 200 billion stars in the ...

"Barnard b is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets known and one of the few known with a mass less than that of Earth." Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting the closest solo star to the ...

ESO / M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet that orbits a red dwarf star “just” six light-years away from Earth. Barnard’s star is the closest solo star and the second ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of which is in its star’s habitable zone. That means liquid ...

"We do not currently have a consensus whether Earth could avoid being engulfed by the red giant sun in 6 billion years." A planetary system anchored by a dead white dwarf star, located around ...