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...
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...
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...
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...
November 2018
How many people does it take to colonise an exoplanet?
.... Twenty-three years later, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands in excess of 3,700. The possibility of finding a truly Earth-like planet is now, many believe, simply a matter of time. But should we find such a world, what use would it be? Could...
