There’s a new frozen oddball orbiting the Sun, and it’s not your average space rock. It’s a planet—a minor one, to be ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet ... TOI-1453 b is a rocky planet orbiting close to its star, while TOI-1453 c is twice Earth’s size and may have a... Astronomers have uncovered extreme ...

Using the Kepler space telescope, the agency had discovered an exoplanet the size of Earth located in the habitable zone of another star. The planet was the first of a similar size to Earth ...

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 ...

They found that volcanic gases lacked significant steam, indicating the planet's interior ... 1453 c is twice Earth’s size and may have a... Astronomers have revealed new evidence that there ...

The planet is "crumbling to pieces," shedding the equivalent of Mount Everest’s mass every 30.5-hour orbit and will be ...

The discovery of this new, farther-out super Earth is even more significant ... than Earth all the way to the size of Jupiter and beyond shows us that planets, and especially super-Earths, in ...

Astronomers have discovered ... of the larger planet population. "This gives more room for the unexpected," Yee said. "This measurement of the super-Earth population provides a new piece of ...