lead author of a new paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Nari refers to HD 20794 d as a super-Earth, with a mass larger than Earth but smaller than ice giants like Neptune. The planet orbits ...

"HD 20794, around which HD 20794 d orbits, is not a star like the others," explains Xavier Dumusque, teaching and research associate at the Department of Astronomy at UNIGE and co-author of the study.

One of the stars targeted by the researchers was HD 144812. Located some 2,500 light years away, HD 144812 is a star first identified in 1978 as a Galactic emission-line YSG.

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Scientists have detected chemical signatures on a planet 124 light-years away that suggest the presence of life for the first time beyond our solar system.

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