Exoplanetary science is on the verge of an unprecedented revolution. The thousands of
exoplanets discovered over the past decade have most recently been supplemented by …

Exoplanet hunting efforts have revealed the prevalence of exotic worlds with diverse
properties, including Earth-sized bodies, which has fueled our endeavor to search for life …

Earth has had oceans for nearly four billion years and Mars had lakes and rivers 3.5–3.8
billion years ago. However, it is still unknown whether water has ever condensed on the …

Context. The relevance of M dwarfs in the search for potentially habitable Earth-sized
planets has grown significantly in the last years. Aims. In our on-going effort to …

The search for life in the Universe is a fundamental problem of astrobiology and modern
science. The current progress in the detection of terrestrial-type exoplanets has opened a …

The TRAPPIST-1 system, consisting of an ultracool host star having seven known Earth-
sized planets, will be a prime target for atmospheric characterization with the James Webb …

Low-mass stars show evidence of vigorous magnetic activity in the form of large flares and
coronal mass ejections. Such space weather events may have important ramifications for the …

Context. The characterisation of the atmosphere of exoplanets is one of the main goals of
exoplanet science in the coming decades. Aims. We investigate the detectability of …

We report the discovery and characterisation of two Earth-mass planets orbiting in the
habitable zone of the nearby M-dwarf GJ 1002 based on the analysis of the radial-velocity …

We present the occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of main-
sequence dwarf stars based on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog and Gaia-based …