exoplanets

How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...

A new postgraduate programme will train researchers to understand life's origins, search for habitable planets and consider the most profound...

In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago have founded the Origins Federation, which...

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building...

What’s it like to win a Nobel Prize? Does it always come as a surprise? How does it change your life? Professor Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019...

A new class of exoplanet very different to our own, but which could support life, has been identified by astronomers, which could greatly accelerate...

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