NASA has been monitoring a never-before-seen planet in its solar system, which is eight times the size of Earth.

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

New research shows that star activity can distort exoplanet measurements, affecting size, temperature, and atmosphere ...

According to a research by the Abu Dhabi-based International Astronomy Center (IAC), the asteroid, codenamed '2024 YR4' will ...

Scientists have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ planet six times larger than our own which may have conditions suitable for life. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – was spotted by Oxford ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

The acid yellow moon Io that orbits Jupiter may be less than 30% the size of Earth, but is considered the most volcanic body ...

This places it between Earth and Neptune in a size range that typically divides exoplanets into two different classes: super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. Super-Earths are rocky planets larger than Earth ...

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still billions more to be discovered. At the same time, ...

This promising planet is a super-Earth, a telluric planet larger than the Earth. It is part of a planetary system containing two other planets. It orbits a G-type star, like the sun, at a distance ...