Astronomers have detected a relatively close exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of its star ... The presence of exoplanets in the star system was first detected in 2011, but data at the ...

Conversely, for larger, hotter stars, the habitable zone is further out ... up to a 30-year wait until the two stars in the binary system move far enough apart to tell which star each of the ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet orbits a star similar to ... planets in our solar system. This means it moves from the outer edge of the habitable zone to the inner region during ...