exoplanets

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.

The University of Cambridge is creating a new research initiative, bringing together physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and earth...

Scientists have suggested a new explanation for the abundance in intermediate-mass exoplanets – a long-standing puzzle in astronomy.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has discovered a new class of planet, an ‘ultrahot...

Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets...

The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet...

Queloz jointly wins the 2019 Physics Nobel for his work on the first confirmation of an exoplanet – a planet that orbits a star other than our Sun...

An international group of astronomers has identified a rogue planet orbiting its star in the so-called Neptunian Desert.