Tag: exoplanets

• The exoplanet vanishes

  Or rather: the exoplanet we thought was there actually didn’t exist in the first place. I wrote about the exoplanet euphoniously known as Gliese 581g when it was first announced back in 2010. It was potentially a huge deal: the first planet with small enough mass to be rocky orbiting within its star’s habitable zone.…

  Matthew R. Francis

  July 6, 2014

  Astronomy

  exoplanets, how science works