Exoplanets with substantial hydrogen/helium atmospheres have been discovered in
abundance, many residing extremely close to their parent stars. The extreme irradiation …

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 …

We investigate a new class of habitable planets composed of water-rich interiors with
massive oceans underlying H 2-rich atmospheres, referred to here as Hycean worlds. With …

ABSTRACT The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored
Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars …

Transiting planet surveys like Kepler have provided a wealth of information on the
distribution of planetary radii, particularly for the new populations of super-Earth-and sub …

PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing
accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it …

We report the distribution of planets as a function of planet radius, orbital period, and stellar
effective temperature for orbital periods less than 50 days around solar-type (GK) stars …

We use models of coupled thermal evolution and photo-evaporative mass loss to
understand the formation and evolution of the Kepler-36 system. We show that the large …

We study the masses and radii of 65 exoplanets smaller than 4 R⊕ with orbital periods
shorter than 100 days. We calculate the weighted mean densities of planets in bins of 0.5 …

Since the discovery of the transiting super-Earth CoRoT-7b, several investigations have
yielded different results for the number and masses of planets present in the system, mainly …