For the first time, scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic activity reforming the atmosphere on a rocky...
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...
The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable ‘Goldilocks zone’ in a distant solar system.
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...
When Professor Didier Queloz spotted a light emitting from a star many light years away from the Earth, he thought it signalled the end of his PhD.
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.
Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets...
Scientists have identified a group of planets outside our solar system where the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist...
An international team of researchers have identified ‘fingerprints’ of multiple metals in one of the least dense exoplanets ever found.
