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

Super-Earths might be far more common in the Universe than previously thought. A recent study using the KMTNet telescope ...

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

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

Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that ...

On May 6, 2025, BGR reported that scientists with NASA and Japan 's Toho University used the computer to determine "when all ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of two new exoplanets, a few times more massive than Earth, ...

planets with wider paths can be difficult to detect. Still, researchers estimated that for every three stars, there should be at least one super-Earth present with a Jupiter-like orbital period ...

The findings in the study were made via microlensing, an observational effect that occurs when the presence of mass warps the fabric of space-time to a detectable degree.

It zips around its star every 33 days, soaking up about as much sunlight as Earth does from the Sun. But don’t let the sunbathing fool you — this planet probably looks more like Uranus or ...

the team calculated that there should be around 0.35 super-Earth planets per star on wide Jupiter-like orbits. Yee explained that the overall distribution of planetary mass ratios could reflect ...