Exoplanetology

What is Exoplanetology?

Exoplanetology is the art and science of exoplanets and the detection of life in other worlds..
Exoplanetology is the study of the characteristics, formation and fate of planets outside our solar system.

What is an Exoplanet?

An exoplanet (or extrasolar planet) is a planet orbiting another star (the "exo" prefix means "outside" in Greek). Up until now, planet-hunters has found mainly gas giant planets, which are easier to detect than telluric planets. However, due to the increasing sensitivity of the detection methods, one already begins to observe the first planets of sizes comparable to the Earth.

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