An international scientific team, with the participation of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), confirms the existence of an Earth-sized planet orbiting an ultra-cold red dwarf located […]
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TESS Discovers A Super-Earth Orbiting The M Dwarf Star TOI-1680
We report the discovery by the TESS mission of a super-Earth on a 4.8-d orbit around an inactive M4.5 dwarf (TOI-1680) and its validation with ground-based facilities.
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A Key Planetary System Helps To Understand Formation Mechanisms Of Super-Earths
A study led by researchers of the University of Liège and the CSIC – using observations from NASA’s TESS telescope – presents the detection of a system of two planets […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release, TRAPPIST-1
SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: Searching For Red Worlds In The Northern Skies
SPECULOOS is a ground-based transit survey consisting of six identical 1-m robotic telescopes. The immediate goal of the project is to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs (late […]
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SPECULOOS Discovers A Potentially Habitable Super-Earth
An international team of scientists, led by Laetitia Delrez, astrophysicist at the University of Liège (Belgium), has just announced the discovery of two ‘super-Earth’ type planets orbiting LP 890-9. Also […]
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Two New Rocky Worlds Around An Ultra-cool Star TOI-4306
An international research team, with the participation of the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets. One is located at […]