New observations show rocky exoplanet has just half the mass of Venus
Published Date: 8/5/2021
Source: phys.org
A team of astronomers have used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile to shed new light on planets around a nearby star, L 98-59, that resemble those in the inner Solar System. Amongst the findings are a planet with half the mass of Venus—the lightest exoplanet ever to be measured using the radial velocity technique—an ocean world, and a possible planet in the habitable zone.