This exoplanet has 2 suns in its sky
The 245 light-years distant Kepler-16b is the first binary star planet found with the radial velocity method. For a long time it was questionable whether there can be planets around binary stars at all. The center of this triple system is Kepler-16A, a K-type star...
Is K2-18b a Hycean exoplanet?
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 The James Webb Space Telescope made an exciting discovery on the exoplanet K2-18b. Further evidence of a vast ocean and even the possible trace of a substance produced only by organisms on Earth was found. K2-18 b is an...
Brightest planet in the universe observed
With the help of ESA’s CHEOPS mission, a team led by James Jenkins of the University of Diego Portales in Santiago de Chile has tracked down the exoplanet LTT9779 b. According to the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, it reflects 80 per cent of the light from its...