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

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

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

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

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like exoplanets could be more common than we thought.

Universal Images Group via Getty Images We keep finding “super-Earths.” Exoplanets in between the sizes of Earth and Neptune are the most common exoplanets of all, but they’re confusing.

Super-Earths — alien planets bigger than Earth, but containing less than 10 times its mass — may be undifferentiated hunks of rock, possessing neither a mantle nor a core, researchers found.

Super-Earths are super habitable Over 300 years ago, German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that Earth was the “ best of all possible worlds.” ...

The other is 70% larger than the Earth and might host a deep ocean. These two exoplanets are super-Earths — more massive than the Earth but smaller than ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.

Categorized as being between two and 10 times the mass of Earth (and with an appropriately scaled-up radius), Super-Earths outnumber any other class of planet, including the Neptune-like worlds ...