Planets intermediate in size between the Earth and Neptune, and orbiting closer to their host
stars than Mercury does the Sun, are the most common type of planet revealed by exoplanet …

The nature of the early martian climate is one of the major unanswered questions of
planetary science. Key challenges remain, but a new wave of orbital and in situ observations …

Context. Previous theoretical works on planet formation around low-mass stars have often
been limited to large planets and individual systems. As current surveys routinely detect …

Identifying terrestrial planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of other stars is one of the primary
goals of ongoing radial velocity (RV) and transit exoplanet surveys and proposed future …

The ongoing discoveries of extra-solar planets are unveiling a wide range of terrestrial mass
(size) planets around their host stars. In this Letter, we present estimates of habitable zones …

Context. The High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) spectrograph has
been mounted since 2003 at the ESO 3.6 m telescope in La Silla and provides state-of-the …

Context. Searching for planets around stars with different masses helps us to assess the
outcome of planetary formation for different initial conditions. The low-mass M dwarfs are …

As planets form and grow within gaseous protoplanetary disks, the mutual gravitational
interaction between the disk and planet leads to the exchange of angular momentum and …

We present a novel, model-independent framework for studying the architecture of an
exoplanetary system at the system level. This framework allows us to characterise, quantify …

A decade ago, the detection of the first, transiting extrasolar planet provided a direct
constraint on its composition and opened the door to spectroscopic investigations of …