K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by dynamic interactions with its companion. An international team of researchers ...

The fact not every One Piece fan knows the name or size of One Piece's planet says something about the priorities of the worldbuilding. It is rare for One Piece lore or story beats to explore these ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

This results in collisions and mergers between planets larger than Earth, creating more large planets. "I'm sure Kepler, the man, would be delighted to learn that a telescope named in his honor ...

One Piece world called Blue Planet Blue Planet size much larger than Earth Fan estimates suggest size comparable to the sun ...

These are rocky worlds that are more massive than Earth but smaller than ice giants like ... making these more massive ...

Only the three stars that make up the Alpha Centauri system lie closer to us. The planets newly discovered around Barnard’s ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

An ultra-short period "super-Earth" - a rocky planet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - about 1.6 times the size of Earth, orbiting its star every 21 hours. With a mass 7.7 times that of ...

Astronomers believe smaller exoplanets may be more varied in composition than the larger exoplanets ... year it takes Earth to complete one orbit around the sun. The outermost planet takes less ...