In fact, the authors note that the Wolf 1061 system “is unlikely to host planets with surface liquid water.” How many extrasolar Venuses are known at this point? “We discovered 43 Venus ...

Caption This is a simulation of the orbital configuration of the Wolf 1061 system. Wolf 1061 is an inactive red dwarf star, smaller and cooler than our sun, 14 light years away. The orbits for the ...

Their findings will appear in the next issue of Astrophysical Journal in a paper titled “Characterization of the Wolf 1061 Planetary System.” “The Wolf 1061 system is important because it is so close ...

Scientists looking at the mysterious exoplanet Wolf 1061 say that it sits within the "habitable zone," just outside the solar system. However, as it sits in close proximity to the inner edge of ...

The new world is one of three surrounding a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061, which is just 14 light ... exoplanets – worlds outside our solar system. But this discovery is particularly important ...

“If we transmitted a radio signal to this exoplanet today, we might get a reply back from tech-savvy aliens in the Wolf 1061 system as early as 2045 — a mere blink of the eye on astronomical ...

As we continue the hunt for habitable worlds beyond our solar system, we're finding more and more candidates closer to home. There's even a small rocky exoplanet within the so-called "habitable ...

Australian astronomers say they've found the closest potentially habitable planet to Earth outside the solar system ... around a red dwarf star known as Wolf 1061. "It is a particularly exciting ...

For decades we could see only stars and a few nearby planets from our own solar system when we looked to ... orbiting a red dwarf star called Wolf 1061 that's just 14 light-years away.

Astronomers have located the habitable zone, the region where water could exist on the surface of a planet, on the Wolf 1061, a planetary system that's 14 light years away. Is there anybody out there?

Their findings will appear in the next issue of Astrophysical Journal in a paper titled "Characterization of the Wolf 1061 Planetary System." "The Wolf 1061 system is important because it is so ...