An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the ...

Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

A distant exoplanet discovered, named Enaiposha, is unlike anything found in our own solar system, similar to a "super-Venus" ...

For decades, scientists have debated how super-Earths and mini-Neptunes form. Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals — the tiny building blocks of planets — formed across wide ...