As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations ...

Even a lack of biosignatures on examined exoplanets can still tell us a lot about the probability of life on the billions of planets we haven’t checked out yet, according to a study in The ...

"This is consistent with what we see in exoplanet populations around full-grown stars. These observations link the disk population directly to the exoplanet population." Finally, our planetary ...

This split coincides with several other classic features in the exoplanet population, such as the high abundance of small planets over large planets and a tendency for giant planets to only form ...

For centuries, planets beyond our solar system—called exoplanets—existed only in theory and science fiction. It seemed nearly impossible to detect planets light-years away, since the ...

Extrapolating to the exoplanet population, the impact of stellar magnetic activity on planetary atmospheres, and the importance of planetary magnetic fields in negating such activity, may redefine ...

Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech As astronomers delve deeper into the diversity of worlds orbiting distant stars, a new study suggests comparing populations of young exoplanets with older ones could ...