"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

But research has shown that the best chance astronomers have of finding life on another planet is likely to be on a super-Earth similar to the ones found recently. Most super-Earths orbit cool ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate chaos on Earth, Mars and Venus. If our solar system had a super-Earth ...

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 ...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system— they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite ...

NASA has confirmed well over 5,000 of these planets. Among the most prevalent is a class of worlds dubbed "super-Earths." They are worlds ranging from some 30 to 70 percent bigger than Earth.

An international team of astronomers led by China's Yunnan Observatories has identified a potentially habitable super-Earth ...

They sometimes refer to these planets as “cold super-Earths,” because they’re probably up to 10 times more massive than our home. But the researchers hadn’t figured out whether water could ...

But now we know we might be the outlier because we have no super-Earth. Super-Earths are a class of planets that are common around other stars. They're defined by mass alone, between two to 10 ...