According to the paper laying out the research behind the discovery, "TOI-1846b is a super-Earth-sized planet, with a radius of approximately 1.8R⊕, placing it within the intriguing radius valley area ...

Discovered by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, Kepler-10c is a massive exoplanet that challenges existing theories about planetary ...

Earth. The breakthrough boosts the search for life-supporting planets. "Are we alone?" This enduring question has fascinated humanity for generations. The discovery in 1995 of the first exoplanet orbi ...

The other is 70% larger than the Earth and might host a deep ocean. These two exoplanets are super-Earths — more massive than the Earth but smaller than ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.

Super-Earths have been spotted in other stars' habitable zones before. For example, a team using NASA's prolific Kepler Space Telescope announced the discovery of the potentially habitable world ...

A fifth planet has been detected within the habitable zone of a neighboring star, where conditions could perhaps support ...

Super-Earths are super habitable Over 300 years ago, German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that Earth was the “ best of all possible worlds.” ...

Universal Images Group via Getty Images We keep finding “super-Earths.” Exoplanets in between the sizes of Earth and Neptune are the most common exoplanets of all, but they’re confusing.

Super-Earths — alien planets bigger than Earth, but containing less than 10 times its mass — may be undifferentiated hunks of rock, possessing neither a mantle nor a core, researchers found.

The other is 70% larger than the Earth and might host a deep ocean. These two exoplanets are super-Earths – more massive than the Earth but smaller than ice giants like Uranus and Neptune.