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Over the past three decades, exoplanet research has delivered an extensive census of planets spanning a wide range of masses, sizes, and orbital configurations. Despite this progress, the physical interpretation of these populations remains…

- Aims: We intended to quantify the impact of stellar multiplicity on the presence and properties of exoplanets. - Methods: We investigated all exoplanet host stars at less than 100 pc using the latest astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 J. González-Payo , J. A. Caballero , J. Gorgas , M. Cortés-Contreras , M. -C. Gálvez-Ortiz , C. Cifuentes

Astronomical surveys have identified numerous exoplanets with bulk compositions that are unlike the planets of the Solar System, including rocky super-Earths and gas-enveloped sub-Neptunes. Observing the atmospheres of these objects…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Tim Lichtenberg , Oliver Shorttle , Johanna Teske , Eliza M. -R. Kempton

With more than 260 extrasolar planetary systems discovered to-date, the search for habitable planets has found new grounds. Unlike our solar system, the stars of many of these planets are hosts to eccentric or close-in giant bodies. Several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Nader Haghighipour

A planetary mass scale and a system of composition codes are presented for describing the geophysical characteristics of exoplanets and Solar System planets, dwarf planets, and spherical moons. The composition classes characterize the rock,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-30 David Russell

We develop a semi-analytical model for computing planetary system formation with the aim of explaining the observed diversity of planetary systems architectures and relate this primordial diversity with the initial properties of the disc…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Yamila Miguel , Octavio M. Guilera , Adrian Brunini

Here we present an initial look at the dynamics and stability of 178 multiplanetary systems which are already confirmed and listed in the NASA Exoplanet Archive. To distinguish between the chaotic and regular nature of a system, the value…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Pavol Gajdoš , Martin Vaňko

The high-precision photometry from NASA's Kepler and TESS missions has revolutionized exoplanet detection, enabling the discovery of over 5500 confirmed exoplanets via the transit method and around 10000 additional candidates awaiting…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Sarah Huang , Chen Jiang

For centuries, humanity wondered if there were other worlds like ours in the Universe. For about a quarter of a century, we have known that planetary systems exist around other stars, and more than 3800 exoplanetary systems have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-10 Bárbara Rojas-Ayala

With over 5,000 exoplanets currently detected, there is a need for a primary classification method to prioritise candidates for biosignature observations. Here, we develop a classification method to categorise rocky exoplanets based on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Sarah R. N. McIntyre , Penelope L. King , Franklin P. Mills

Over the past three decades, we have witnessed one of the great revolutions in our understanding of the cosmos - the dawn of the Exoplanet Era. Where once we knew of just one planetary system (the Solar system), we now know of thousands,…

Astrophysical observations reveal a large diversity of radii and masses of exoplanets. It is important to characterize the interiors of exoplanets to understand planetary diversity and further determine how unique, or not, Earth is.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 Caroline Dorn , Dan J. Bower , Antoine B. Rozel

Multi-planet systems produce a wealth of information for exoplanet science, but our understanding of planetary architectures is incomplete. Probing these systems further will provide insight into orbital architectures and formation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-19 Jeremy Dietrich , Daniel Apai

A planetary system consists of a host star and one or more planets, arranged into a particular configuration. Here, we consider what information belongs to the configuration, or ordering, of 4286 Kepler planets in their 3277 planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Emily Sandford , David Kipping , Michael Collins

Over 300 extrasolar planets have been found since 1992, showing that planetary systems are common and exhibit an outstanding variety of characteristics. As the number of detections grows and as models of planet formation progress to account…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Eggenberger , S. Udry

At present, because of observational selection effects, we know of no exoplanetary systems with any planetary masses close to that of the Earth. We have therefore used computer models to see whether such planets could be dynamically stable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Barrie W Jones , P Nick Sleep , David R Underwood

The field of extrasolar planets is still, in comparison with other astrophysical topics, in its infancy. There have been about 300 or so extrasolar planets detected and their detection has been accomplished by various different techniques.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2011-06-30 Samuel J. George

As of 2025, over 6000 planets are known to orbit stars other than our Sun. We can measure their sizes and orbital periods, infer their masses and temperatures, and constrain their compositions. Based on these data, about 1% of extrasolar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Floris van der Tak

The Kepler mission has discovered a large number of planetary systems. We analyze the implications of the discovered single/multi-exoplanet systems from Kepler's data. As done in previous works, we test a simple model in which the intrinsic…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-24 Amir Weissbein , Elad Steinberg , Re'em Sari

Extrasolar planets abound in almost any possible configuration. However, until five years ago, there was a lack of planets orbiting closer than 0.5 au to giant or subgiant stars. Since then, recent detections have started to populated this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 J. Lillo-Box , D. Barrado , A. C. M. Correia