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Kepler-62f, on the other hand, is located farther out in the exo-solar system than planet 'e.' The gravitational perturbation from the star and inner planets would not be as strong in the outer ...

But those modes haven't been able to detect planets like Jupiter and Saturn in our solar system, which are cooler and farther from their star. New research says that there might be a way the JWST ...

These extra-solar planets were seen to pass in front of, or transit, their host star. Studying such planets outside of our Solar System allows scientists to investigate how planetary systems form.

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But he says that charaterizing exo-earths by imaging or spectroscopy will be a challenge in systems that have more than about ten times as much dust as our solar system.

What observers don’t see are solar system configurations like our own: ... They’re barely good for finding true exo-Earths in 300-plus-day orbits.

By the time it entered our solar system in 1995 or so, it had lost half its original mass, ... “That puts a lot of pressure on the galaxy to manufacture exo-Plutos,” Dr. Laughlin said.

The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), founded in 1820, encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science.