19 October 2020
Astronomers identify a true water-world that could have an ocean over 100 kms deep
... data on the system with the aid of ESO’s planet hunting spectrograph, ESPRESSO (Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations). The team, headed by Jorge Lillo-Box at the Centro de Astrobiología in Madrid, Spain...
05 June 2020
Exciting exoplanet find around sun-like star
... worlds, detections of rocky worlds around Sun-like stars is comparatively rare, due to the techniques used to find exoplanets. But by improving on an old detection method, a team of German and US scientists have now found a system that is the...
23 June 2017
Will our next nearest exoplanet be found soon?
... the campaign could get a first ‘unofficial’ glance at what could turn out to be, the next closet habitable exoplanet to us. If additional planets are indeed discovered around these stars, it is hoped that ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT...
14 November 2018
Super-Earth exoplanet found around closest single star to the Sun
... of the energy the Earth receives from the Sun, making the exoplanet a frigid and not so nice place to live where temperatures could...who in 2016 spotted Proxima Centauri b; the closest known exoplanet to us only four light years away. Using the ...
08 April 2019
The Exoplanet Handbook (2nd edition)
... least to some extent - justified by the discovery of exoplanets. As the introduction to this massive volume explains, the ... subject has progressed in the past couple of decades. The Exoplanet Handbook is no Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, but it ...
15 November 2017
Earth-mass temperate exoplanet found close by
...Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) will be on hand to help detect vital organic biomarkers, such as oxygen, in the atmospheres of exoplanets close to us. “New facilities at ESO will first play a critical role in building the census of Earth-mass planets...
