A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... What's most remarkable about this new planet, however, is its orbit. While Johannes Kepler taught us that no planetary orbit is perfectly ...

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

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

but some have been classified as "super earths," or worlds several times the mass of our planet, said Alan Boss, an astronomer with the Carnegie Institution who serves on the Kepler Science Council.

Scientists suspect Kepler-421b probably formed in its present ... Proxima Centauri. This super-Earth rock, found in 2016, has a mass 1.27 times that of Earth and takes just 11.2 days to orbit.

NASA is always on the hunt for planets like our own, and recently found a new super-Earth by the name of TOI-715b. The planet is larger than our own, but it’s position and makeup mean that it ...

Kepler, which died nine years after launching ... fantastic worlds' Astronomers found a 'cold super-Earth' less than 6 light-years away - and it may be the first rocky planet we'll photograph ...

The diagram compares the planets of the inner solar system to Kepler-186, a five-planet system about 500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The five planets of Kepler-186 orbit a ...

How does a planet’s size influence its orbit around its parent star? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy | Space ...