A super-Earth with extreme climatic conditions has been identified 2,472 light-years from our planet. This world, named ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

Experts at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a 'Super-Earth' among the stars known as Kepler-725c, which ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

the University of La Laguna (ULL) have confirmed the existence of a new super-Earth planet, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around the Sun-like star 82 Eridanus (HD 20794). This discovery is the ...

The discovery came after a small extrasolar planet ... This planet is part of a larger sample that shows super-Earth planets between the orbits of Earth and Saturn are abundant," team member ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

HARPS achieved a precision of 1 meter per second, enabling the discovery of smaller planets, including the first super-Earth.

The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists also sometimes call the "Goldilocks Zone", where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist. Commenting on the discovery, Alison ...