Astronomers find a nearby system of exoplanets with a potentially inhabitable world

31/07/2019
An international group of scientists, led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, used data from several ground-based observatories to confirm the presence of a planet detected by the TESS satellite and, in the process, discovered two additional worlds. The newly discovered planets orbit the red dwarf star GJ 357, about 31 light-years away. Rafael Luque, a "la Caixa - Severo Ochoa" PhD student at the IAC is the first author of the paper. >> Read more