Jean Schneider, CNRS/LUTH, Paris Observatory Praise for the first edition: ‘… an excellent, startlingly complete snapshot of the current state of knowledge regarding extrasolar planets … Like any good ...

"We have no way to determine how different exoplanets really look in detail yet, and this makes them a rich space for creativity." As shocking as it sounds today, prior to the 1990s, scientists ...

A few decades ago, astronomers were just entering a new frontier of exoplanet discovery. Exoplanets are planets located outside our solar system. They orbit distant stars and represent mysterious ...

Data from the massive telescope also suggests the exoplanet, the name for a planet outside the solar system, may also have a surface covered in water and an atmosphere rich with hydrogen.

And that’s exactly what scientists have been doing for decades: searching for exoplanets, worlds orbiting faraway stars. They’ve had tremendous success: So far, NASA’s official count of ...

In May 2024, the first exoplanet orbiting TIC 393818343 was detected. The planet, which received designation TIC 393818343 b, orbits the host every 16.25 days on an eccentric orbit .