A new planet 100 light-years away could be suitable for life - NPR
WEBSep 7, 2022 · An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new "super-Earth" type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life. Unlike any of the planets in...
Caltech Researchers Find Evidence of a Real Ninth Planet
WEB3 days ago · Caltech researchers have found evidence of a giant planet tracing a bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the outer solar system. The object, which the researchers have nicknamed Planet Nine, has a mass about 10 times that of Earth and orbits about 20 times farther from the sun on average than does Neptune (which orbits the sun at an average ...
NASA has discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting in the …
WEBJan 11, 2023 · Scientists have discovered a world that is likely rocky and 95% of the size of Earth. The planet, called TOI 700 e, is orbiting around a star and could have liquid water on it, NASA says. This is...
New planet that could support human life discovered 'close ... - Sky News
WEBMay 23, 2024 · UK scientists have discovered a new planet that could potentially support human life and it isn't that far away… relatively speaking.
NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World
WEBJan 7, 2020 · NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
NASA's Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in …
WEBApr 17, 2014 · Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.
Scientists Discover A New Planet That Could Support Life - TIME
WEBMay 24, 2024 · The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday, named the new planet Gliese 12 b. Scientists said in the study that the planet is “the nearest,...
NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth
WEBJul 23, 2015 · NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another …
Is there a 9th planet out there? We may soon find out.
WEBJanuary 9, 2024. Our solar system is home to wondrous worlds, mysterious moons, astounding asteroids, and curious comets. But despite myriad telescope surveys of the night sky, most of our...
New Planets Article, Mu Arae Information, Planet Hunters Facts ...
WEBThese new planets are still no place for life as we know it. The planet around Mu Arae weighs at least 14 times as much as Earth—"an Earth on steroids," says one astronomer.