... several different mechanisms could be at work to explain super-Earth formation. Accordingly, to try and understand which theory ...before there is sufficient time to form the super–Earths. Migration of super–Earths through a dead zone is very slow and...
... has helped uncover in its first year of operation. One of the most intriguing discoveries just announced is GJ 357 d; a super-Earth located about 31 light-years away orbiting a diminutive M-type dwarf star that has been described as relatively...
...radii. The rocky ones, the team say, would be Earths and super-Earth type planets made up of material similar to our own ...about 35 percent of all known exoplanets that are bigger than Earth should be water-rich, that likely formed in similar ways ...
...’s planet-hunting HARPS instrument is one of them and its unprecedented accuracy helped the team to spot the super-cold, super-Earth. “HARPS played a vital part in this project,” said co-lead scientist Guillem Anglada Escudé from Queen...
... to compile molecular data points essential for modelling atmospheres of cool stars and exoplanets. Artist’s impression of the super-Earth exoplanet GJ 1214b orbiting the nearby star GJ 1214. The exoplanet, orbiting a small star only 40 light-years...
... time, K2-18 b was also discovered to have a sibling – K2-18 c. Like its bigger neighbour, K2-18 c is also a super-Earth, with a mass about 7.5 times that of Earth, but the planet is closer to its star than K2-18 b, and probably too hot to be in the...