Tag Archive for 'sub-Earth'

An artist’s impression of Proxima d. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

Potential Third Planet Discovered Orbiting Proxima Centauri

Feb 10, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Using data from the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers...

An artist’s impression of the sub-Earth exoplanet Gliese 367b. Image credit: SPP 1992 (Patricia Klein).

Iron-Rich Sub-Earth Exoplanet Found Orbiting Gliese 367

Dec 3, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified a dense, ultra-short-period sub-Earth planet transiting the bright,...