Latest HD 40307 Stories

Goldilocks Zone Serves Up Another Super Earth
2012-11-09 05:00:30

A new, habitable super-Earth has been discovered by astronomers orbiting a dwarf star just 42 light years away. The new super-Earth is in the habitable zone, where liquid water and a stable atmosphere could be found on the planet.

Image 1 - HARPS Finds Fifty New Exoplanets
2011-09-12 12:45:58


2010-08-24 08:20:00

Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have discovered five planets orbiting a star in what is being called "the biggest discovery of so-called exoplanets since the first was logged 15 years ago."

2008-06-16 07:35:00

Astronomers have found a triple system of super-Earths around the star HD 40307. Their findings imply that one out of three solar-like stars harbor such planets.

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