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

The exoplanet HD 20794 d takes 647 days to orbit ... during the planet's revolution around the star. Detecting this super-Earth was not easy and the process was iterative. The team analyzed ...

Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered, only a select few show promise. Here we look at some of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered ranked through their similarity to Earth. The result ...

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

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

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

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

This places it between Earth and Neptune in a size range that typically divides exoplanets into two different classes: super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. Super-Earths are rocky planets larger than Earth ...