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 ...

Upon further investigation, it seems that Gliese 581d may be the only one of the two actually in the habitable zone, and its ...

Discovering a larger population of super-Earths in Jupiter-like and Saturn-like orbits could also have implications for our understanding of so-called "habitable zones" around other stars.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...

Of the more than 5,000 exoplanets that have been confirmed so far and many more thousands of candidates, most orbit stars the ...

What makes this confirmation especially intriguing is the planet's survival in the so-called "forbidden zone" of its star — a ...

Astronomers have made a breakthrough discovery suggesting that super-Earth exoplanets are not only widespread across the ...

A molecule detected on a planet 124 light-years away is produced on Earth by decaying phytoplankton and other microbes. There is no other known source.