A super-Earth just beyond Mars would throw all the smaller rocky worlds of the inner solar system completely out of whack; the super-Earth's gravity would push and pull the other planets into ...

In one simulation, a super-Earth ten times Earth’s mass caused Earth’s orbit to shift closer to Venus. This movement could potentially push Earth out of the habitable zone—the region around ...

More A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable ...

Another reason super-Earths are ideal targets in the search for life is that they’re much easier to detect and study than Earth-sized planets. There are two methods astronomers use to detect ...

EPIC 206317286 c is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a K-type star. Its mass is 5.03 Earths and it takes 17.5 days to complete one orbit of its star. Its discovery was announced in 2022.

Super-Earths can exist in wider orbits around their parent stars than was previously believed, suggesting these Earth-like exoplanets could be more common than we thought.

A new "super-Earth" has been discovered in a nearby solar system's habitable zone, according to NASA. The planet, designated as TOI-715 b, is "about one and a half times as wide as Earth" and in a ...

Planets beyond our solar system called "super-Earths" are common in the universe. Astronomers want to know if these worlds are habitable, and if any of them are like Earth. Instruments like the ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy. They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is ...

NASA has discovered a “super-Earth” that may be habitable — and it’s “only” 137 light-years away. “By astronomical standards, that’s not too bad!” the agency insisted on X about ...

The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.