The Solar System is very tidy. You have four rocky planets near the Sun, and four gas giant planets further away. An asteroid belt with a dwarf planet separates the two groups, and many other small ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our solar system. "We found a 'super-Earth'—meaning it's bigger than our home planet but smaller than Neptune ...

(Web Desk) - A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet has been found outside of our solar system and it could have the right conditions to ...

A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...

25, 2025 — Astronomers have discovered that super-Earth exoplanets are more common ... First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope ...

At the time, the Earth would have been far closer to the moon than it is today, making it perhaps twice as large in the lunar ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17 ... These two exoplanets, a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, are common in the galaxy, yet are absent ...