Super-Earth Exoplanets
The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…
On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists…
The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet…
A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized…
A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…
A world with two suns, a lava planet, and a world trapped in eternal darkness are just some of the…
The Kepler space telescope was NASA’s first planet-hunting mission, assigned to search a portion of the Milky Way galaxy for…
Two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star may be "water worlds." They are 218 light-years away in the constellation Lyra,…
