Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable ... The planet provides a brilliant target for the next ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

ANDES stands for ArmazoNes high Dispersion Echelle Spectrograph. AndES is a high-resolution instrument that can search for ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

An international team, including the UNIGE, has discovered a super-Earth that will enable astronomers to test new hypotheses ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO A super-Earth planet that dips in and out ... for the next generation of telescopes to probe its atmosphere, and for scientists to test the extreme limits ...