Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

Newly discovered super-Earths add to the list of planets around other stars that offer the best chance of finding life. An astronomer explains what makes these super-Earths such excellent candidates.

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The Super Earth National Anthem is part of the full Helldivers 2 soundtrack, which is available now from Apple and Amazon, and streamable on various subscription services. Other memorable musical ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool. Searching for Earth-like planets – and Earth-like life R… ...

Super-Earth TOI-1452 b, depicted in this artist’s rendition, orbits a red dwarf star some 100 light-years away. It is 70 percent larger than Earth and five times our planet’s mass, with a ...

A pair of planetary scientists simulated how our solar system might have evolved if it had a super-Earth orbiting where the asteroid belt is today. The results are enough to make you grateful that ...

Most super-Earths orbit cool dwarf stars, which are lower in mass and live much longer than the Sun. There are hundreds of cool dwarf stars for every star, like the Sun, and scientists have found ...

A super-Earth on a highly eccentric orbit would also be especially bad news for the inner planets, because it would be more likely to push or pull Earth, Mars and Venus into eccentric or tilted ...