April 2019
Scanning the skies for exoplanets
...the field of exoplanet studies as it revealed a plethora of alien worlds that were so very different from the type we were accustomed ... side of Mercury than it does with our own temperate water-world. There is a good chance then that any atmosphere it...
12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
... signature but little cloud cover, although the planet is not considered a water world. This analysis is the best measurement of water to date on an exoplanet of this size. This primitive atmosphere also suggests that the planet most likely formed...
09 February 2016
Are Earth-like worlds built like Earth?
... planets intermediate in size between Earth and Neptune could be gaseous ‘mini- Neptunes,’ rocky ‘Super-Earths,’ or indeed water worlds, thus adding to the uncertainty in planet structures. After analysis of their results Zeng and team found that...
17 April 2019
Proxima Centauri may host a second exoplanet, but its first might not be there
...six times more massive. Finding exoplanets like our own world is exciting enough, but finding one in our cosmic ...coolness of Proxima Centauri. Hopes of finding a true Earth-like water-world would then surely rest with Proxima b; a possible twin Earth ...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
...many reasons; it saw a paradigm shift in politics across the world from the UK choosing to leave the EU, to the US... our nearest star, Proxima B, speculating that it might be a water-world similar to our own, ESO sent a Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars...
