by Tanja Schumann | Mar 21, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 With an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of 0.88, Kepler 438b is the exoplanet most similar to Earth. The formula behind the ESI provides a number between zero and one – the higher the value, the more a celestial body resembles...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 18, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
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...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 17, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
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...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 16, 2025 | Exoplanets, Highlights EN
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...
by Tanja Schumann | Oct 14, 2024 | Exoplanets
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR) & Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), October 2024 With half the mass of the Earth, the newly discovered planet is one of the lightest of the over 5,000 exoplanets known today. With an impressive orbital speed of less than 8 hours, GJ 367 b...
