Chronicles the discoveries of all the planets within our solar system, as well as planets beyond our system.

Over the past ten years, the discovery of extrasolar planets has opened a new field of astronomy, and this area of research is rapidly growing, from both the ob

"This book: Provides extensive grounding in key issues of astrophysics, chemistry, biology and geophysics; over 150 images and illustrations; exercises for each

Can we detect the moons of extrasolar planets? For two decades, astronomers have made enormous progress in the detection and characterisation of exoplanetary sy

This book explores the relations between physical parameters of extrasolar planets and their respective parent stars. Planetary parameters are often directly de