A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Researchers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b, located about ...

Kepler-62f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.04) is a super-Earth ... [+] exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five ...

Scientists work to define a “habitable zone,” which means that if it’s too close to a star, the water heats and evaporates, and too far, it freezes. Also, the atmospheric conditions need to be just ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

After scrutinizing new and archival data from a variety of space and Earth-based telescopes ... they are still classified as super puffs. However, it is unclear if Kepler-51e is also a super ...

A "super-Earth" located outside our solar system is raising hopes for the possibility of extraterrestrial life, according to findings from the University of Oxford. Scientists believe the ...

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 ...

HD 20794 d is expected to be a focal point for upcoming projects like the Extremely Large Telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, and the Large Interferometer For Exoplanets (LIFE). These ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

NASA says researchers studying exoplanets in space using the TESS space telescope have discovered a super-Earth orbiting its red star's habitable zone. Scientists say one "year" of its orbit would ...