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

It is believed that the planet, named HD 20794 d, is at just the right distance from its star to sustain water on its surface, but because this distance changes over the course of its elliptical ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of extraterrestrial beings, per a cosmic study published in the ...

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 ...

Proxima c is at least 6 times bigger than Earth itself and as such is described as a super-Earth. The other reason that it might not be able to host human life has to do with the fact that it ...

A team of international researchers has confirmed the discovery of an Earth-like exoplanet that may have the right conditions ...

Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system ... so it was hard to be completely convinced at that time if the signal was real or not." He added the planet "could play a pivotal ...

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An international team, including the UNIGE, has discovered a super-Earth that will enable astronomers to test new hypotheses in the search for life in the Universe. Thirty years after the ...