TOI-1408 c is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a F-type star. Its mass is 7.6 Earths, it takes 2.2 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.03587 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2024.
A new "super-Earth" has been discovered in a nearby solar system's habitable zone, according to NASA. The planet, designated as TOI-715 b, is "about one and a half times as wide as Earth" and in a system that is only a measly 137 light-years from Earth.
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likely rocky.
The newly discovered world, named Gliese 12 b, orbits every 12.8 days and is Earth's size or slightly smaller – comparable to Venus. Assuming it has no atmosphere, the planet has a surface temperature estimated at around 107 degrees Fahrenheit (42 degrees Celsius).
Our first release for 2024 features HD 63433 d—the closest, young, Earth-sized planet discovered to date! According to the discovery paper, this planet is located ~22 parsecs from Earth and is the smallest confirmed planet with an age less than 500 Myr.
What is a Super-Earth (TOI-715 b): NASA’s new discovery That Could Support Life.
What will happen in 2025 according to NASA?
NASA's SpaceX Crew-11 will be the second crew rotation flight of 2025 and is targeted for no earlier than July to benefit the space station needs, including accommodating resupply flights and other operations aboard the orbiting laboratory. NASA will announce the four-person crew at a later date.
Misleading. NASA did not abruptly stop deep-sea research following the failure of a satellite in 1978. The agency continues to study the deep ocean and launched missions as recently as 2021.
TOI-733 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 5.72 Earths, it takes 4.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.0618 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2023.
Saturn takes about 29 Earth years to orbit the Sun (a Saturnian year), and Saturn's axis of rotation is tilted like Earth's, resulting in seasons. But Saturn's longer year produces seasons that each last more than seven Earth years.
It may also have a thick atmosphere with clouds covering most of its surface. We don't know what the atmosphere of the planet is made of, so we don't know whether you could breathe the air there. It's very unlikely to be the same mix of oxygen and nitrogen as the Earth's atmosphere though.
The planet dubbed TOI-715 b, which is about 1½ times as wide as Earth, is just the latest exoplanet astronomers have observed and theorized could support life.
Astronomers say that the planet is in the “Goldilocks zone”, meaning that the distance of the planet from its star is just right, making it not too hot and not too cold for life to exist.
Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likely rocky.
TOI-715 b is particularly intriguing to researchers as a potentially rocky planet at just the right distance from its star that it could host water on its surface. About 137 light-years away, the super-Earth TOI-715 b orbits a red dwarf sun. The exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and was first found in 2023.
Astronomers have discovered a “super-Earth,” or a world larger than our planet, orbiting a star about 137 light-years away. A second planet, thought to be the size of Earth, may also be orbiting the same star. The super-Earth exoplanet, known as TOI-715b, orbits a red dwarf star that is cooler and smaller than our sun.
The TOI 1338 system lies 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor. The two stars orbit each other every 15 days. One is about 10% more massive than our Sun, while the other is cooler, dimmer and only one-third the Sun's mass. TOI 1338 b is the only known planet in the system.
But the newly found planet's size alone — it is 6.9 times larger than Earth, almost the size of Saturn — makes it unlikely to be livable. Named TOI 1338 b, it is the only planet in the TOI 1338 system, which lies 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor, and orbits its stars every 95 days.
It may take between 10,000 and 20,000 Earth years to make one full orbit around the Sun. The announcement does not mean there is a new planet in our solar system. The existence of this distant world is only theoretical at this point and no direct observation of the object nicknamed "Planet 9" have been made.
Astronomers have found an unusually large planet orbiting a small star, located about 280 light-years from Earth. The unexpected size of the newly discovered world, called TOI 5205b, has led researchers to call it the “forbidden planet.”
Apollo 17 became the last crewed mission to the Moon, for an indefinite amount of time. The main reason for this was money. The cost of getting to the Moon was, ironically, astronomical.
Today, over 80% of the global ocean (and 50% of the U.S. Ocean) is still unmapped, with even more unexplored. One of the biggest challenges of ocean exploration is the intense pressures in the deep ocean. In addition, zero visibility and extreme cold temperatures make it difficult to explore the vast ocean.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and other related organizations, as the result of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
