NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of a possible ocean world larger than Earth with conditions that have the potential to support life. The exoplanet known as K2-18 b was first ...

“A correlation between the heavy element content of transiting extrasolar planets and the metallicity of their parent stars”, by Guillot et al. To be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. This press ...

Are we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other “suns” that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of ...

Astronomers have gotten very good at spotting the signs of planet formation around stars. But for a complete understanding of planet formation, we also need to study examples where planet formation ...