25 January 2021
Unique six-exoplanet system challenges theories of how planets form
... that TOI-178 harboured at least six planets in the super-Earth to mini-Neptune regimes, with orbital periods lasting from just...are not. “It appears there is a planet as dense as the Earth right next to a very fluffy planet with half the density of...
04 May 2020
Exoplanets with hydrogen-rich atmospheres could harbour life
...life, it is detecting compounds around rocky planets or super-Earths that are the coveted prize. One of the easiest ... it requires nitrogen and oxygen to breath, but early in Earth’s history, our atmosphere contained small amounts of hydrogen (H2) that...
19 February 2018
TESS arrives in Florida ahead of its April launch
...and 376,000 kilometres (233,000 miles) from Earth. This unique High Earth Orbit (HEO) will allow for an unobstructed ...stars TESS will study. TESS is on the look-out for Earth and Super-Earth size planets and the size of a planet is proportional to the...
21 January 2019
Is this the end for Planet Nine?
The prospect of an unseen, mysterious super-Earth hiding out in the far reaches of the ...Nine, if it really is out there, has a predicted mass ten times that of Earth’s mass and it swings round the Sun in an elongated orbit that lasts anyway between ...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
... form into O2, the kind of oxygen present in Earth's atmosphere. Because this process also produces significant and ... With the nearest known Earth-size planet orbiting an M dwarf and the nearest known Super-Earth mass planets in habitable zones...
18 August 2017
A new Earth-like planet may have been found as close as 16 light years away
... dwarf – the gas giant Gliese 832b and the so-called super-Earth Gliese 832c. The Jupiter-like giant is orbiting the star ...alien world would probably have a mass between 1 to 15 Earth's masses," said the lead author Suman Satyal, UTA physics ...
