The basic geometry of the Solar System—the shapes, spacings, and orientations of the
planetary orbits—has long been a subject of fascination as well as inspiration for planet …

Hot Jupiters were the first exoplanets to be discovered around main sequence stars and
astonished us with their close-in orbits. They are a prime example of how exoplanets have …

Building on the legacy of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-I and II), SDSS-III is a program
of four spectroscopic surveys on three scientific themes: dark energy and cosmological …

Constraining planet formation based on the atmospheric composition of exoplanets is a
fundamental goal of the exoplanet community. Existing studies commonly try to constrain …

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 …

About one-third of the∼ 1200 transiting planet candidates detected in the first four months of
Kepler data are members of multiple candidate systems. There are 115 target stars with two …

Abstract The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is finding transiting planet
candidates around bright, nearby stars across the entire sky. The large field of view …

Observations in the past decade have revealed extrasolar planets with a wide range of
orbital semimajor axes and eccentricities. Based on the present understanding of planet …

" The study of planet formation has a long history. The idea that the Solar System formed
from a rotating disk of gas and dust-the Nebula Hypothesis-dates back to the writings of …

Our understanding of planet formation has been rapidly evolving in recent years. The
classical planet formation theory, developed when the only known planetary system was our …