An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

How would detecting methane help astronomers identify if exoplanets, or even exomoons, have life as we know it, or even as we ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The finding has ...

Scientists believe the exoplanet HD 20794 d, six times the mass of Earth, could harbour liquid water on its surface.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could ... “It is among the closest Earth analogues we know about and given its peculiar ...

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...

That orbital pattern is especially interesting to astronomers, because if the planet contains water, it would likely be liquid during its closest ... for more exoplanets will continue. Before joining ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that might have favorable conditions for liquid water. This planet, HD 20794 d, belongs to the group known as super-Earths. It is located in a star system less ...

It is located in a star system less than 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest candidates for further research.