exoplanets

An international team of astronomers has detected titanium oxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time. The results , reported in the...

A star about the size of Saturn – the smallest ever measured – has been identified by astronomers.

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has made the most detailed image of the ring of dusty...

Martin Rees is Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, the Astronomer Royal, a member of Britain’s House of...

An international exoplanet ‘think tank’ is meeting this week in Cambridge to deliberate on the ten most important questions that humanity could...

Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an opportunity to study what our solar system was...

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...