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...
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...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
... extraterrestrial life. For example, researchers have previously shown that the delivery of water to an Earth-like planet is likely to depend on the planets in Jupiter-like orbits in the same system (the upcoming NASA TESS and ESA PLATO missions will...
June 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
... is unique in the universe in its ability to sustain life. To find out, we need to be able to study Earth-like planets circling other stars to measure whether their atmospheres are capable of supporting life, or indeed carry the chemical ...
