Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Nov 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of astronomers using data from ESO’s HARPS instrument has discovered a new exoplanet in the habitable zone around the nearby...

Oct 11, 2012 by Natali Anderson

Yale researchers have discovered that a rocky super-Earth orbiting a nearby star is a diamond planet. This illustration shows the interior of 55 Cancri...

Sep 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

European astronomers using ESO’s HARPS planet finder have discovered a new super-Earth in the habitable zone around the red dwarf star Gliese 163. Artist’s...

Feb 2, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Gottingen,...