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Beyond Our Solar System

a small, dark planet in front of space and a bright planet

Exoplanets 101: faculty from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, including David Sing, Sarah Hörst, and Jocelyne DiRuggiero, explain how planets outside of our solar system are created and discovered—and whether life might exist on them.