Astronomers discover a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune 250 light years away from our solar system. These planets offer a ...

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, ...

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

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...

For decades, astronomers have classified exoplanets into neat categories: rocky Earth-like planets, gas giants like Jupiter, ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent from our ... Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes: More Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A ...

I f you've been playing Helldivers 2 since it first launched last year, then there's a good chance you're a veteran of ...

A second planet has been blown to smithereens by the Meridia black hole/singularity as it continues along its path of destruction towards Super Earth - the Helldivers' home world. Yep, while they ...

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 ...