"A few planetary systems happen to be oriented so that the planets [can cross the face of] their home star as seen from Earth. When this occurs, the dimming of the star's light can be detected using ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

Armchair astronomers could be the first to detect extrasolar planets hiding in five years’ worth of observatory footage. Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are looking for volunteers to help ...

"Of the other small planets like Earth that are out there, which of them have Jupiter siblings? Because this might be an important characteristic to look for, if we want to figure out where to find ...

“A correlation between the heavy element content of transiting extrasolar planets and the metallicity of their parent stars”, by Guillot et al. To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This press ...

Their discovery of the exoplanet 51 Pegasi b in 1995 spawned a revolution in astronomy. The Search for exoplanets is becoming increasingly important at DLR. The two ESA missions CHEOPS (2019) and ...

An international team of astronomers released the largest-ever compilation of exoplanet-detecting observations made using a technique called the radial velocity method. They demonstrated how these ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates that are orbiting a variety of distant stars. In accomplishing this, Hubble looked farther into our Milky Way galaxy ...

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.

We search for extrasolar planets and determine their properties. We develop models that describe the atmospheres of the planets. We want to find out what makes a planet favourable to life. Through ...

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has detected new extrasolar planets. The two works were labeled as TOI-5152 b and TOI-5153 b. A sign displays the NASA logo outside of NASA Langley ...