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

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

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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 ...

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will monitor in near real-time the precursors of dangerous phenomena before they are visible from Earth. Finally, from late 2026, the Plato satellite (ESA), a worthy successor to Kepler, for which CEA ...

She explains that there are planets known as hot super-Earths whizzing about so close ... The majority were discovered by the Kepler space telescope, launched in 2009. Kepler’s mission was ...

Roman Emperor Septimus Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and ...

This intriguing star, studied by the Hubble Space Telescope, lies in the depths of the open star cluster known as M67, about 2,800 light-years from Earth. Its unusual name ... This discovery was made ...