Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any ...

Earth. The breakthrough boosts the search for life-supporting planets. "Are we alone?" This enduring question has fascinated ...

The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...

Astronomers have just unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that could significantly impact the search for life beyond our ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Kepler-725c's mass is quite significant — 10 times greater than the mass of Earth. This places it in the upper echelons of a type of planet called super-Earths — giant, probably rocky worlds.

K2-18 b orbits a red dwarf star and is much larger than Earth. It’s known as a sub-Neptune planet, which means it’s rich in ...

The newly discovered L 98-59 f is a super-Earth, with a minimum mass 2.8 times that of our planet. It follows a nearly circular 23-day orbit around its star, receiving about the same amount of stellar ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

NASA defined "super-Earth" as "unlike anything in our solar system, these are 2 to 10 times the mass of Earth, but smaller than Neptune, and can be made of gas, rock or a combination of both." ...