Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

Researchers came to the conclusion that super-Earths can exist as far from their host star as our gas giants are from the sun ...

Astronomers published evidence of possible biosignatures on the planet K2-18b earlier this month, but another look at the ...

Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. While it can be relatively easy to locate worlds that orbit close to their star, ...

In 2020, astronomers detected WD 1856+534 b, a gas giant that orbits a star 81 light-years from Earth. This exoplanet, which ...

"If the ultimate result of this story is that the public is more circumspect about future claims of life detection, that's ...

Does alien life exist on an exoplanet? On TikTok, a University of Oxford astrophysicist cast doubt that extraterrestrial life ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the ...

Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

This event indicated the exoplanet had a planet-to-star mass ratio that roughly doubles the Earth-sun mass ratio. "We found a small planet in an orbit similar to Saturn's. This planet is part of a ...