A super-Earth that could explain the universe's mysterious lack of certain exoplanets has been found by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the planet-measuring ESPRESSO ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

This week, an old astronomical controversy is renewed as researchers present new evidence for a hidden "Planet X" in our ...

farther-out super Earth is even more significant because it is part of a larger study. By measuring the masses of many planets relative to the stars that host them, the team has discovered new ...

By studying light anomalies made by the newly found planet's host star and combining their results with a larger sample from a KMTNet microlensing survey, the team found that super-Earths can ...

Ohio [US], April 27 (ANI): A recent study has revealed that super-Earth exoplanets ... but within this pattern, we've found excesses and deficits, offering new insights into planetary distribution." ...

In the end, the team discovered OGLE-2016-BLG-0007 ... of those pieces together into one picture has been enormously satisfying.” What new discoveries about super-Earths will researchers make in the ...

and find new ones all the time. That being said, sometimes a space rock gets the jump on us, not appearing until it’s just days or even hours away from making a close pass of Earth. That was the ...

Point your eyes to the sky because a newly-discovered comet is currently whizzing ... the moon's glow could also drown out the comet's brightness from Earth depending on the phase of the lunation.