Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

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 ...

A possible “super-Earth” orbits a relatively close ... seeking possible signs of life. High on the list is NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will someday examine the atmospheres ...

Astronomers have found a super-Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Earth and a 647-day orbit, it could have ...

For decades, scientists have debated how super-Earths and mini-Neptunes form. Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals — the tiny building blocks of planets — formed across wide ...