02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
...Sun. Without accounting for the additional warming effects of a possible atmosphere, this gives this piping hot exoplanet an equilibrium temperature of around (254 degrees Celsius (490 degrees Fahrenheit). Its companion, GJ 357 c, which although more...
03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
... telescopes to understand its chemical make-up. Gliese 3470 b (also known as GJ 3470 b), is a sub-Neptune/Super-Earth hybrid exoplanet weighing in at 12.6 Earth masses. It is more massive than Earth, but less massive than Neptune, which is more than...
23 July 2021
Astronomers detect a disk where exoplanet moons could be forming
...a moon-forming region around a giant Jupier-like exoplanet 400 light years away; a finding that will help...a circumplanetary disc. The disk in question surrounds one of two massive exoplanets orbiting a young star known as PDS 70. PDS 70 had already ...
10 December 2021
Extreme exoplanet changes the picture about massive stars as planet hosts
... a large planet, but that is what Janson and colleagues have found. Named b Centauri (AB)b or b Centauri b, this extreme exoplanet is 10 times as massive as Jupiter, making it one of the most massive planets ever found. Whats more, it moves around...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... team behind ARIEL had already completed an Assessment Phase study for an ESA medium class mission, the Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory (EChO). By combining the instrumentation developed for EChO with flight proven spacecraft systems designed...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... has long been a staple of science fiction. It should come as no surprise then that these extra-solar planets, or ‘exoplanets’, have also been a subject of interest to scientists and philosophers for centuries. As long ago as 300 BC people were...
