Exoplanets

Artist's impression of lightning storms on Jupiter. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/JunoCam

Could exoplanets host a global electric current?

An artist's concept showing ARIEL in orbit. Credit: ESA/STFC RAL Space/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office

NASA’s CASE instrument added to ESA’s ARIEL exoplanet mission

A 2D surface map of Earth, treated as a proxy exoplanet, shows the continents in green and seas in blue. Credit: Steng Fan

Is it possible to make a map of an exoplanet?

The Sun shows us how sunspots appear dark against a star. Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)

Observing spots on distant stars

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