Tag: exoplanets

Nearby Planetary System May Have the Right Conditions to Host Life

Astronomers researched a planetary system only 35 light-years away that contains rocky exoplanets, and they found that it may have a planet in the habitable zone, the area around a star where conditions are suitable for liquid water to exist. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team of astronomers studied…


Newly Discovered Rocky Exoplanet May Have Atmosphere

A team of astronomers has found a nearby exoplanet similar to Earth that might have an atmosphere. In recent decades, astronomers have detected thousands of exoplanets (planets around stars other than our sun) in the hope of finding some that may be habitable for lives like those on Earth. However, only a very few of…