Extrasolar planets contextualise the Solar System among a large number of planetary systems with very different properties. Many extrasolar planets show characteristics which are not realised in the ...

We are international leaders in analysing extrasolar planetary data obtained with space telescopes. We are developing a holistic modelling approach for different planets and exoplanets that ...

causing the planets to undergo radial migration, a process that is clearly important for explaining many of the extrasolar planetary systems that have been discovered. Work on this topic at Queen Mary ...

Trappist-1 b is one of seven rocky planets orbiting the star Trappist-1, located 40 light-years away. The planetary system is unique because it allows astronomers to study seven Earth-like planets ...

who notes that planetary systems that lose one or more planets tend to have more inclined orbits. In our own continuing journeys around the Sun, we tend to forget that we were born in a dense ...

If astrobiologists are ever going to detect life beyond our solar system ... even nearby earth-like planets are extremely difficult to detect. As a result, most of the extrasolar planets thus ...

Find out what surprises Pluto offered and what the mission might uncover as it heads to its next, outer solar-system target. Also, from Earth-like planets to super Earths and water worlds: a tour of ...

As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists couldn't be certain that stars beyond the sun also had planets orbiting them. Since the discovery of the first extra-solar planet ...

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral position in the areas of the areas of extrasolar and solar system planets at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) with Dr. Ian Dobbs-Dixon. Areas ...