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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

Instead of a hydrogen-rich super-Earth, or a water world, the new data revealed concentrations of carbon-dioxide (CO 2) comparable to the levels found in the dense CO 2 atmosphere of Venus in our ...

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 ...