by Ludwig Scheibe | Mar 26, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN, Press releases
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), March 2025 Barnard’s star is the second closest neighbour to our Sun and the closest single star with a planetary system. Only the star Proxima Centauri with two planets is closer to us, but it is part of a triple star system. At a...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 21, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
by Tanja Schumann (TU Berlin), March 2025 Of the about 5800 known exoplanets discovered as of March 2025, about 2000 are part of planetary systems with more than one confirmed planet around the same star. Most of those are two-planet systems (about 500). However,...
by Tanja Schumann | Mar 18, 2025 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
Eight planets orbit around the star Kepler-90. Similar to our solar system, there are small planets inside and larger ones outside. However, the entire system would not extend beyond the Earth’s orbit. ← Back to the highlights overview
by Ludwig Scheibe | Nov 26, 2024 | Exoplanet systems, Highlights EN
by Ruth Titz-Weider (DLR), October 2024 Orbiting the star HD 110067, slightly over 100 light years from here, six planets were discovered using the space telescopes TESS and CHEOPS (Luque et al, nature 2023). The exceptional thing are the orbital periods of these...
