European researchers based in Geneva discovered the planet “E” in the Gliese 581 solar system after four years of observations from the La Silla observatory’s 3.6-meter ESO telescope and the ...

Following the latest estimation, Gliese 581 would be 7 Gyr-old. The purple bars surrounding planets Gliese 581 c and d illustrate the variable distance to the star caused by the eccentricity of ...

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, transiting ...

In an awakening study, astronomers have discovered an Earth-like exoplanet named Gliese ... like planets orbiting cool stars can retain their atmospheres and remain habitable. This new find ...

Artist’s conception of the newly discovered planet Gliese 12 b, which is orbiting a red dwarf star located 40 light-years away. This artist's conception assumes that the planet retains a tenuous ...