A fourth planet, Gliese 581e, was spotted in 2009. This planet was the closest planet to the star, orbiting at a distance of just 2.6 million miles (4.2 million km) every 3.2 days, and its mass is ...

This is what a study published today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of international researchers have announced the discovery of Gliese 12 b, which ...

Might we soon get an answer? The planet that is the current focus of international inquiry is called Gliese 12b, an Earth-sized exoplanet that’s only 40 light years away. The first step in ...

The planet orbits a so-called cool red dwarf star called Gliese 12, according to NASA. Gliese 12 is only about 27% of the sun’s size, with about 60% of the sun’s surface temperature ...

The new findings were published January 2 on the pre-print server arXiv. Gliese 367 b (or GJ 367 b for short, dubbed Tahay) was discovered in December 2021 with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey ...

The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Thursday, named the new planet Gliese 12 b. Scientists said in the study that the planet is “the nearest, transiting ...

The planet orbits the faint star Gliese 581, which is 20.5 light-years away in the constellation Libra. Scientists made the discovery using the Eso 3.6m Telescope in Chile. They say the benign ...

But Gliese 12 b, located 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces, could be the most sensational find to date. Its discovery is outlined in a paper published today in Monthly Notices of the ...