Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

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.

"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

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 ...

Can we find another planet like Earth orbiting a nearby star? Extrasolar planets (exoplanets) have moved from being a novelty to a fundamental part of modern astronomy. Over 1500 exoplanets have been ...

Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

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

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 ...

"This shows that the planet has complex weather patterns just like Earth and other planets of our own System," adds Fei Yan, a co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Science ...

We are international leaders in analysing extrasolar planetary data obtained with space telescopes. We are developing a holistic modelling approach for different planets and exoplanets that ...

Astronomers Make Rare Exoplanet Discovery, and a Giant Leap in Detecting Earth-Like Bodies ... migration history of planets bordering the Hot Neptune Desert, these extrasolar planets that orbit ...