Ever wondered whether the planet Tatooine could be real? In today’s paper, the authors discuss a new technique to directly image distinct planets orbiting binary stars, just like in Star Wars.
Embark on a dusty journey into the heart of debris disks – and why it’s important to talk dust if you want to understand planets.
We know quite a lot about planets orbiting other stars – if they’re closer to their stars than Jupiter is to the Sun. For the region further out than Pluto, we know almost nothing. Is there anything out there?
How do you measure the clouds in a brown dwarf atmosphere when the entire brown dwarf is a single, unresolved dot on your image! Read on to find out…
Could icy planets be evading detection, by hiding in the outer reaches of nearby solar systems? Careful re-examination of Kepler data reveals candidate long-period exoplanets.