18 April 2016
New Earth-like planet found in GJ 832 planetary system
... worlds similar to our own, researchers from Texas and Germany have used a statistical approach to infer that an Earth-like planet is residing in the habitable zone of GJ 832, a planetary system that is already known to harbour two...
17 June 2020
Six billion Earth-like planets could be in our galaxy, new study says
... may have Earth-like planets in our Galaxy." Previous estimates of the frequency of Earth-like planets range from roughly 0.02 potentially habitable planets per Sun-like star, to more than one per Sun-like star. Typically, planets like Earth are more...
09 February 2018
New research on rocky worlds helps identify Earth-like planets
... measurements have been made for so far, astronomers have noticed that planets with a radii greater than about 1.7 times that of Earth have gassy envelopes, like Neptune, while those with radii smaller than this are rocky...
09 November 2018
Leftover gas from the Sun's birth created Earth's water
.... Although we have only scratched the surface in our hunt for Earth-like worlds in other exo-systems, many of the 3,800 planets we’ve found so far appear to be rocky bodies not significantly different from our own. If this is indeed how...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... the time evolution of orbital parameters to generate the synthetic radial velocity curves of the known and the Earth-like planets in the system," said Satyal. "We obtained several radial velocity curves for varying masses and distances indicating...
May 2018
PLATO the habitable zone explorer
... concept. Due to launch in 2026, PLATO will revolutionise exoplanet science. The mission will find Earth-like planets in the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. But who knows what else we might uncover. If there’s anything that science has...
