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 ...

"For the first time we can see the chemical cake while it's rising in the oven, instead of just the starting ingredients of ...

A distant flicker of light from a star can reveal more than you might expect. In fact, a brief, subtle brightening in the sky ...

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

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the ...

Exoplanet super-Earths are more prevalent in the universe than earlier research predicated according to international ...

A team of scientists has discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common across the universe than previously thought. The team studied light anomalies made by the newly found planet’s host star ...

"We found a 'super-Earth'—meaning it's bigger than ... at large distances—approximately between the orbits of Earth and Saturn—from their host stars. The largest study of its kind, this ...

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery suggesting that super-Earth exoplanets are not only widespread across the ...

In this case, microlensing signals were used to locate OGLE-2016-BLG-0007, a super-Earth with a mass ratio roughly double that of Earth's and an orbit wider than Saturn's. These observations ...

"We found a small planet in an orbit similar to Saturn's. This planet is part of a larger sample that shows super-Earth planets between the orbits of Earth and Saturn are abundant," team member ...