Three Earth-sized planets have been discovered orbiting a dim and cool star, and may be the best place to search for life beyond the Solar System.
The most detailed map of a small, rocky ‘super Earth’ to date reveals a planet almost completely covered by lava, with a molten ‘hot’ side and solid...
In 1995, in Geneva, PhD student Didier Queloz discovered a planet orbiting another sun – something that astronomers had predicted, but never found...
On a blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b, a team of astronomers including researchers from the University of Cambridge has detected a...
Astronomers have discovered a disc of planetary debris surrounding a young sun-like star that shares remarkable similarities with the Kuiper Belt...
Astronomers have detected wildly changing temperatures on a super Earth – the first time any atmospheric variability has been observed on a rocky...
Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapour
Latest research has uncovered a massive clump of carbon monoxide in a young solar system. The gas is the result of near constant collisions of icy...
Study reveals chemical composites of exoplanet atmospheres 128 light years away. Scientists say techniques will “one day provide evidence of life...
Once only science fiction, astronomers are now finding hundreds of planetary systems beyond our own. Given recent discoveries through space...
New professor is one of the joint discoverers of a planet orbiting a normal star beyond the Solar System.
![](https://www.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/styles/content-580x288/public/news/research/news/progression-4.jpg?itok=UfC95Ksz "Exoplanet imaging from Project 1640. After applying several advanced optical techniques the P1640 camera sees only a very small fraction of the light from HR8799 in this "speckle" pattern. The images of the 4 planets are still buried in this pattern, Credit: Ian Parry/Project 1640")
