NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
WEBJan 11, 2023 · Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our …
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone - Science@NASA
WEBJan 31, 2024 · The discovery: A “super-Earth” ripe for further investigation orbits a small, reddish star that is, by astronomical standards, fairly close to us – only 137 light-years away. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet. Key facts: The bigger planet, dubbed TOI-715 b, is about one and a half times as wide as Earth, and ...
NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized …
WEBJan 12, 2023 · The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first new exoplanet, an Earth-sized rocky planet called LHS 475 b. Located just 41 light-years away, the planet orbits very close to a...
Second potentially habitable Earth-size planet found orbiting ... - CNN
WEBJan 10, 2023 · A NASA mission has spotted an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting a small star about 100 light-years away. The planet, named TOI 700 e, is likely rocky and 95% the size of our world.
NASA Planet Hunter Finds its 1st Earth-size Habitable-zone World
WEBJan 7, 2020 · NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable …
WEBFeb 22, 2017 · NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to have liquid water.
Discovery Alert: A Rocky ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
WEBSep 16, 2022 · This planet was detected using a ground-based telescope survey, the Search for habitable Planets EClipsing Ultra-cOOl Stars (SPECULOOS). The observations not only met their original goal – confirming the existence of the innermost planet – but unexpectedly discovered a second planet in the system.
NASA's Webb telescope has discovered its first exoplanet
WEBJan 12, 2023 · NASA's Webb telescope has discovered an exoplanet, which is any planet that is outside of our solar system, for the first time, the agency announced Wednesday. The planet, called LHS 475 b, is...
Webb telescope spies signs of water on habitable-zone exoplanet - CNN
WEBSep 12, 2023 · CNN — Waters may be flowing on the surface of a colossal planet that lies about 120 light-years from Earth, according to new evidence uncovered by the James Webb Space Telescope. Astronomers...
NASA announces new 'super-Earth': Exoplanet orbits in 'habitable …
WEBFeb 5, 2024 · NASA said the measurements of the habitable zone -- "a narrower and potentially more robust definition than the broader 'optimistic' habitable zone" -- put the newly discovered planet, and possibly the smaller Earth-sized planet, in "prime position" from its parent star.