Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the quest for life in the Universe. The habitable zone around the star HD 20794 ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

Dynamical evolution of a planetary system of close-in super-Earths and mini-Neptunes and an Earthlike planet at 1 au. It shows the evolution of the semimajor axis of planets that survived at the ...

For decades, scientists have debated how super-Earths and mini-Neptunes form. Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals — the tiny building blocks of planets — formed across wide ...

Astronomers have found a super-Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Earth and a 647-day orbit, it could have ...

Some AI leaders are concerned the AGI race lacks serious evaluations, and are pushing for assessments of things like ...

An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...