Two Earths in “habitable” orbits around a nearby star
An international team of astrophysicists with the participation of three researchers from Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, announces the discovery of two possibly rocky planets in the habitable zone of the star GJ 1002, a red dwarf located barely 16 light-years away from the solar system. Rocky planets like the Earth are the norm, rather […]
Scientific study reveals that the giant planets reach their “maturity” much earlier than expected
An international team of scientists with the participation of the Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) and other institutions in Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Mexico has measured for the first time the masses of gaseous and giant planets at a very early age in the evolution of planetary systems. V1298 Tau, a solar-type […]