Extrasolar Planets News


Mission Press Releases

  • Farinella Prize Awarded to Diana Valencia and Lena Noack
    European Planetary Science Congress - Monday, September 20, 2021
    Posted on: 9/20/2021 2:43:23 PM PDT

  • Winners announced for the machine vs stellar and instrument noise data challenge
    Ariel Mission - Wednesday, September 15, 2021
    Posted on: 9/15/2021 1:46:09 PM PDT

  • Join Exoplanet Exploration: Citizens Help NASA Observe Other Worlds with Exoplanet Watch!
    American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) - Thursday, July 1, 2021
    Posted on: 7/1/2021 7:38:24 PM PDT

  • HKU's Laboratory for Space Research member co-discovers first planet found around white dwarf star
    University of Hong Kong - Thursday, September 17, 2020
    Posted on: 9/17/2020 3:02:25 PM PDT

  • Fifty new planets confirmed in machine learning first
    University of Warwick - Tuesday, August 25, 2020
    Posted on: 8/25/2020 3:23:37 PM PDT

  • Western Space team theorizes rare exomoon discovery
    Western University - Wednesday, June 24, 2020
    Posted on: 6/24/2020 1:57:46 PM PDT

  • Four Newborn Planets Get Cooked by Their Sun
    Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Potsdam - Thursday, June 11, 2020
    Posted on: 6/11/2020 9:14:32 PM PDT

  • People from 112 Countries Select Names for Exoplanet Systems
    International Astronomical Union - Tuesday, December 17, 2019
    Posted on: 12/17/2019 6:28:46 PM PDT

  • Exoplanet interiors have Earth-like geochemistry
    American Association for the Advancement of Science - Thursday, October 17, 2019
    Posted on: 10/17/2019 7:30:19 PM PDT

  • Nobel Prize Resources from the American Institute of Physics
    American Institute of Physics - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 3:30:10 PM PDT

  • Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 Goes to Peebles, Mayor And Queloz
    Nobel Prize - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 3:22:52 PM PDT

  • 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
    University of Geneva - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 3:21:31 PM PDT

  • Nobel Prize Winners Started 'Remarkable Era of Discovery' of Exoplanets
    Cornell University - Tuesday, October 8, 2019
    Posted on: 10/8/2019 3:20:09 PM PDT

  • Many Gas Giant Exoplanets Waiting to Be Discovered
    Carnegie Institution - Saturday, September 28, 2019
    Posted on: 9/28/2019 3:45:51 PM PDT

  • Massive exoplanet orbiting tiny star challenges planet formation theory
    American Association for the Advancement of Science - Thursday, September 26, 2019
    Posted on: 9/26/2019 7:54:48 PM PDT

  • Northrop Grumman-Built TESS Discovers More than Twenty New Planets after One Year of Exploration
    Northrop Grumman Corporation - Thursday, July 25, 2019
    Posted on: 7/25/2019 2:30:46 PM PDT

  • Let Experts Guide You on Futuristic Vacation to Alien Moons
    University of Arizona - Tuesday, July 23, 2019
    Posted on: 7/23/2019 6:57:04 PM PDT

  • SwRI scientist develops novel algorithm to aid search for exoplanets
    Southwest Research Institute - Tuesday, June 25, 2019
    Posted on: 6/25/2019 2:05:56 PM PDT

  • IAU100 NameExoWorlds Gives Every Country In The World The Opportunity To Name an Exoplanet and its Host Star
    International Astronomical Union - Thursday, June 6, 2019
    Posted on: 6/6/2019 3:23:31 PM PDT

  • Global Challenge Launched to Build Exoplanet Data Solutions
    University College London - Wednesday, April 17, 2019
    Posted on: 4/17/2019 4:10:22 PM PDT

    		• Mission Status Releases

  • Starshade Exoplanet Data Challenge
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 23, 2021
    Posted on: 3/23/2021 1:42:55 PM PDT

  • NASA SMD ROSES-21 Amendment 7: NOI due date delay and POC change for Exoplanets Research
    NASA Quest - March 18, 2021
    Posted on: 3/18/2021 2:12:35 PM PDT

  • Detectability of Rocky-Vapour Atmospheres on Super-Earths with Ariel
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 9, 2021
    Posted on: 3/9/2021 2:23:23 PM PDT

  • Exoplanet Detection using Machine Learning
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 2, 2020
    Posted on: 12/2/2020 8:36:59 PM PDT

  • Planet Hunters TESS II: Findings from the first two years of TESS
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - December 2, 2020
    Posted on: 12/2/2020 8:35:40 PM PDT

  • NASA ROSES-20 Amendment 63: D.6 TESS Guest Investigator Cycle 4 Revised Text and Phase-1 Due Date Delay
    NASA Science Mission Directorate - October 23, 2020
    Posted on: 10/23/2020 4:53:57 PM PDT

  • Exoplanets and the Sun
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - October 21, 2020
    Posted on: 10/21/2020 2:17:42 PM PDT

  • The CHEOPS mission
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - September 25, 2020
    Posted on: 9/25/2020 10:06:04 PM PDT

  • Exoplanets in our Backyard: A report from an interdisciplinary community workshop and a call to combined action
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 21, 2020
    Posted on: 7/21/2020 5:02:05 PM PDT

  • Exocomets from a Solar System Perspective
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - July 21, 2020
    Posted on: 7/21/2020 1:31:47 PM PDT

  • An Update on the Student Exoplanet Programme
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - June 19, 2020
    Posted on: 6/19/2020 4:00:24 PM PDT

  • Solar System Physics for Exoplanet Research
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 29, 2020
    Posted on: 4/29/2020 1:48:08 PM PDT

  • Assessment of Supervised Machine Learning for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 24, 2020
    Posted on: 4/24/2020 12:53:38 PM PDT

  • New HST data and modeling reveal a massive planetesimal collision around Fomalhaut
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 21, 2020
    Posted on: 4/21/2020 3:34:19 PM PDT

  • On the role of reduced wind mass-loss rate in enabling exoplanets to shape planetary nebulae
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - April 21, 2020
    Posted on: 4/21/2020 3:33:24 PM PDT

  • On the orbital evolution of meteoroid 2020 CD3, a temporarily-captured orbiter of the Earth-Moon system
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 24, 2020
    Posted on: 3/24/2020 3:12:37 PM PDT

  • Utilizing Small Telescopes Operated by Citizen Scientists for Transiting Exoplanet Follow-up
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 24, 2020
    Posted on: 3/24/2020 3:11:43 PM PDT

  • Expectations for the confirmation of Proxima c from a long-term radial velocity follow-up
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 24, 2020
    Posted on: 3/24/2020 3:10:28 PM PDT

  • Nightside condensation of iron in an ultra-hot giant exoplanet
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - March 13, 2020
    Posted on: 3/13/2020 2:47:28 PM PDT

  • Circumbinary Planets -- The Next Steps
    arXiv.org e-Print archive - February 27, 2020
    Posted on: 2/27/2020 10:44:12 PM PDT

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