Exoplanets

Dr Angelos Tsiaras of University College London.

Interview Angelos Tsiaras discusses exoplanet K2-18b and the search for water in the Universe

Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz, one of three winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019. Credit: ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Nobel Prize winner Didier Queloz on the hunt for exoplanets

Dead or alive: the study of isotopes in an exoplanet’s atmosphere gives clues about its habitability. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Does oxygen on an exoplanet indicate an Earth-like world?

Can an exomoon make plants grow on tidally-locked exoplanets around dim stars? Credit: NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI), Elen11/iStock/Getty images

Can an exomoon make plants grow?

An artist’s impression showing exoplanet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Water detected on potentially ‘habitable’ exoplanet

Carbon dioxide released from hot tectonic plates beneath the sea could affect a water world’s climate. Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/ NASA

Could water-rich exoplanets experience extreme cooling?

Following clues: a computer model of the spiral arms in the disc around the hot star MWC 758. Credit: ESO, M. Benisty et al. (University of Grenoble), R. Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), and Z. Zhu (Princeton University)

Do spiral protoplanetary discs mean exoplanets in orbit?

An artist's impression of the Kepler space telescope scouring the sky Credit: NASA

A history of the Kepler space telescope

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Citizen scientists find rare exoplanet in Kepler data

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Interview: exoplanet-hunting with Kepler

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Wendy Stenzel

How the Kepler space telescope came to be

An artists impression of waht WASP 121b, one of the exoplanets studied, might look like. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Vivien Parmentier/Aix-Marseille University (AMU)

Ultra-hot Jupiters tear apart water

The planet orbits 4.5 times the Earth-Sun distance away from its star, and is almost 13 times the mass of Jupiter Credit: Harvard-Smithsonian, Center for Astrophysics/D. A. Aguilar

Exoplanet search sped up by new technique

An artist's illustration of Kepler-186f. Researchers believe this exoplanet's tilt has given it a stable climate. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

Exoplanets more Earth-like than thought

An artist's impression of the Kepler Space Telescope observing exoplanets orbiting a star. Image Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center/Wendy Stenzel

80 possible exoplanets discovered by Kepler space telescope