That said, Lalande 21185 is the brightest red dwarf in the northern half of the sky. ... Further study showed the planet has a mass equal to about three Earths.

An international team of astronomers has found 60 new planets orbiting stars close to Earth’s solar system, including a rocky “super Earth.” The experts also found evidence of an additional ...

An international team of astronomers has found 60 new planets orbiting stars close to Earth’s solar system, ... (also known as GJ 411b or Lalande 21185) orbits the star Gliese 411 (or GJ 411).

The closest extra-solar planet yet discovered orbits the star Lalande 21185, only 8.1 light years from Earth. George Gatewood of the University of Pittsburgh observed a telltale wobble in the light ...

One planet in particular, Gliese 411b, has been generating plenty of attention. ... Gliese 411b (also known as GJ 411b or Lalande 21185) orbits the star Gliese 411 (or GJ 411).

When future space travelers set out to search the galaxy for other planets, they might not have to go very far. One of the sun's nearby neighbors seems to be the site of a planet of some sort, or ...

Tantalising signs of water have been found in the atmospheres of planets orbiting distant stars. ... a Sun-like star 10 light years away, and Lalande 21185, a red dwarf about 8 light years away.

One of these probable planets is around a star called GJ 411, also known as Lalande 21185. It is the fourth-closest star to our own sun and has only about 40 percent of the sun’s mass. The planet has ...

Astronomers have found 60 new planets, including a super-Earth, orbiting stars near the solar system. Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey. For two decades, scientists observed 1,600 stars using the W.M ...

By 1960, when van de Kamp announced he’d found his first planet at a star named Lalande 21185, his search of Barnard’s Star was already an open secret.