Super-Earth Exoplanets
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NASA’s Webb Hints at Possible Atmosphere Surrounding Rocky Exoplanet
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet…
Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone
A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized…
NASA Data Reveals Possible Reason Some Exoplanets Are Shrinking
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…
Strange New Worlds
A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…
Two Super-Earths May Be Mostly Water
Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra,…
NASA’s TESS Discovers Stellar Siblings Host ‘Teenage’ Exoplanets
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds…