What makes this result so unequivocal is that another team of planet hunters at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado, have independently verified it by analysing four years of their own observations.

ECONOMIST: Planet hunting

But in constructing the first atmospheric model that has the orbital dynamics of a star-planet-moon system fully included, astronomers Duncan Forgan, at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, and David Kipping, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, turn that idea on its head.

FORBES: Earth-Like Exo-Moons Can Lurk Well Beyond Planetary Habitable Zones, Say Astronomers