by Tanja Schumann | Mar 20, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Exoplanet types
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Rogue planets are planets that wander lonely through space without a star. In recent years, scientists have discovered more and more of these strange and fascinating objects. But where do they come from? Did these planets...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 16, 2025 | All, All about exoplanets, Exoplanet types
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Discovery of 40 jumbo planets in the Orion Nebula A surprising find of free-floating pairs of planets has been made with images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. These planets are as massive as Jupiter. In the mosaic...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | All, All about exoplanets, Exoplanet types, Jupiter-sized
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 The largest planets out there are massive gas giants. They are heavier than 80 times the mass of Earth, and larger than 8 times Earth’s diameter. With their size and mass, they closely resemble Jupiter and Saturn in out...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | All, All about exoplanets, Exoplanet types, Neptune-sized
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 On the grand size scale between massive gas giants and smaller super-Earths, we find a class of medium-sized planets: Worlds with masses roughly between ten and 60 times the mass of Earth, or sizes of 3 to 6 times Earth’s...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | All, All about exoplanets, Exoplanet types, Super-Earth
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), October 2024 Looking at all the planets of the Solar System arranged next to each other to scale, you can clearly see three categories: There’s the small rocky planets, with Earth being the biggest of them, the medium-sized Uranus and...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | All, All about exoplanets, Earth-sized, Exoplanet types
by Ludwig Scheibe (TU Berlin), November 2024 At the lower rung of the planetary size ladder, we have terrestrial planets: worlds smaller than about 1.5 times Earth’s radius. In our Solar System, the four inner planets belong to this class: Mercury, Venus, Earth,...
