St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science

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Understanding how unusual Earth is may help humanity to appreciate how special it is.

More than 5000 planets are known to orbit stars far beyond the solar system, in planetary systems very different to our own (Source: Exoplanet.eu). There may well be hundreds of billions of extrasolar planets in the Milky Way alone. These planets include planetary types not found among the eight planets that orbit our Sun, including mini-Neptunes, super-Earths, rogue or nomad planets and hot gas-giant planets. Are we therefore alone in the Universe? To answer this pertinent question, we seek to understand the formation and evolution of our own solar system and the reasons for this rich planetary diversity.

The Centre for Exoplanet Science brings together researchers from different disciplines to find out how planets form in different galactic environments, how their atmospheres evolve, and the relation between the evolutionary history of planets and the emergence of life. We are further interested in the moral, ethical and technical aspects of detecting existent or extinct extra-terrestrial life in distant exosystems, or within our own solar system, and the significance of such a discovery for our societies.

The Centre for Exoplanet Science builds on the rich legacy of the SUPA Astrobiology initiative.

The Centre for Exoplanet Science currently combines research from the School of Physics and Astronomy (Astronomy), the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Department of Philosophy, the School of Biology, the Department of Social Anthropology and the School of Modern Languages (Russian) at the University of St Andrews.

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  • A 16 Myr super-Neptune in Upper Centaurus Lupus and a preliminary survey of transiting planets in Sco-Cen with TESS

    Vach, S., Zhou, G., Mann, A. W., Barber, M. G., Fairnington, T. R., Huang, C. X., Rogers, J. G., Bouma, L. G., Krüger, J., Wright, D., Niblett, A. E., Nelson, J. M., Quinn, S. N., Latham, D. W., Bieryla, A., Collins, K. A., Kunimoto, M., Watkins, C. N., Schwarz, R. P. & Collins, K. I. & 8 others, Sefako, R., Horne, K., Howell, S. B., Clark, C. A., Littlefield, C., Christiansen, J. L., Essack, Z. & Winn, J. N., 1 Aug 2025, In: The Astronomical Journal. 170, 2, 12 p., 131.

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  • A joint effort to discover and characterize two resonant mini-Neptunes around TOI-1803 with TESS, HARPS-N, and CHEOPS

    Zingales, T., Malavolta, L., Borsato, L., Turrini, D., Bonfanti, A., Polychroni, D., Mantovan, G., Nardiello, D., Nascimbeni, V., Lanza, A. F., Bekkelien, A., Sozzetti, A., Broeg, C., Naponiello, L., Lendl, M., Bonomo, A. S., Simon, A. E., Desidera, S., Piotto, G. & Mancini, L. & 113 others, Hooton, M. J., Bignamini, A., Egger, J. A., Maggio, A., Alibert, Y., Locci, D., Delrez, L., Biassoni, F., Fossati, L., Cabona, L., Lacedelli, G., Carleo, I., Leonardi, P., Andreuzzi, G., Brandeker, A., Cosentino, R., Correia, A. C. M., Claudi, R., Alonso, R., Damasso, M., Wilson, T. G., Bàrczy, T., Pinamonti, M., Baker, D., Barkaoui, K., Barrado Navascues, D., Barros, S. C. C., Baumjohann, W., Beck, T., Beichman, C., Benz, W., Bieryla, A., Billot, N., Bosch-Cabot, P., Bouma, L. G., Ciardi, D. R., Cameron, A. C., Collins, K. A., Crossfield, I. J. M., Csizmadia, S., Cubillos, P. E., Davies, M. B., Deleuil, M., Deline, A., Demangeon, O. D. S., Demory, B.-O., Derekas, A., Dragomir, D., Edwards, B., Ehrenreich, D., Erikson, A., Falk, B., Fortier, A., Fridlund, M., Fukui, A., Gandolfi, D., Gazeas, K., Gillon, M., Gonzales, E., Gudel, M., Guerra, P., Günther, M. N., Heitzmann, A., Helling, C., Howell, S. B., Isaak, K. G., Jenkins, J., Kiss, L. L., Korth, J., Lam, K. W. F., Laskar, J., Lecavelier des Etangs, A., Magrin, D., Matson, R., Matthews, E. C., Maxted, P. F. L., McDermott, S., Munari, M., Mordasini, C., Narita, N., Olofsson, G., Ottensamer, R., Pagano, I., Pallè, E., Peter, G., Pollacco, D., Queloz, D., Ragazzoni, R., Rando, N., Ratti, F., Rauer, H., Ribas, I., Salmon, S., Santos, N. C., Scandariato, G., Seager, S., Sègransan, D., Smith, A. M. S., Schlieder, J., Schwarz, R. P., Shporer, A., Sousa, S. G., Stalport, M., Steinberger, M., Sulis, S., Szabò, G. M., Twicken, J. D., Udry, S., Van Grootel, V., Venturini, J., Villaver, E., Walton, N. A. & Winn, J. N., 31 Mar 2025, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 695, 26 p., A273.

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  • Anomalous δ15N values in the Neoarchean associated with an abundant supply of hydrothermal ammonium

    Martin, A. N., Stüeken, E. E., Gehringer, M. M., Markowska, M., Vonhof, H., Weyer, S. & Hofmann, A., 22 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nature Communications. 16, 10 p., 1873.

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