Exoplanets
Planets outside the solar system
Formation of planetary systems - including our own Solar System
A list of the currently known exoplanets
See exoplanets.org for further information.
Also see the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia. and Planet Quest at JPL
Space Missons seeking earthlike planets:
The Kepler Mission
The Darwin Mission
The Space Interferometer Mission
The Terrestrial Planet Finder observatories
Jun 10, 2011
"As many as one in four Earthlike extrasolar planets should have a moonlike moon, new supercomputer simulations show."
Jun 6, 2011
"Planet-hunting astronomer Geoff Marcy is angry about exoplanet missions that were canceled or abandoned."
May 25, 2011
"NASA's planet-hunting satellite is making the case that it's a small-world galaxy, after all"
May 24, 2011
"Kepler space telescope spies well more than a hundred of them"
May 24, 2011
"[T]he Kepler team announced the confirmation of a new rocky planet in orbit around Kepler-10. Dubbed Kepler-10c, this planet is described as a 'scorched, molten Earth.'"
May 24, 2011
A new study helps to understand whether planets require only a few million years to form or as long as 10 million years or so
May 23, 2011
"Alien solar systems appear to be common in our galaxy, but they're not like Earth's."
May 23, 2011
The discovery planetary systems quite unlike our own
May 20, 2011
"[A]re we in any danger from a close encounter with one of these galactic nomads?"
May 19, 2011
"Astronomers have discovered a new class of planets floating alone in the dark of space. These lone worlds are probably outcasts from developing planetary systems and, moreover, they could be twice as numerous as the stars themselves."
