Exoplanets

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Solar system planets

Recently discovered solar system could seed life between adjacent exoplanets

Artist illustration of a bright star surrounded by rings of slowly differentiating material

Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds

Artist illustration of the exoplanet WASP-121b

There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres

3-d illustration of a rocky planet with veins of magma

Scientists confirm third-nearest star with a planet—and it’s rocky like Earth

Sunrise From the International Space Station

UChicago scientists reveal new clues into how Earth got its oxygen

Extrasolar Planets

UChicago study illuminates fates of distant planetary atmospheres

Illustration of Closeup of a planet's surface

NASA’s TESS, Spitzer missions discover a world orbiting a unique young star near us

Visualization of a blue planet half in shadow, with mass of clouds gathered over the bright side

NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers its first habitable planet, first world with two stars

View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

Dave Charbonneau

The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau (Ep. 36)

A leading astronomer searches the stars for habitable planets and alien life.

Gemini Observatory

Nearly a decade in the making, exoplanet-hunting instrument installed in Hawaii