A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

The planet is located within the habitable zone at a moderate distance from its star, HD 20794, where liquid water could theoretically exist on its surface. Unlike planets in the solar system ...

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has been used to discover Earth-size planet TOI 700 e. It is "orbiting within the habitable zone of its star – the range of distances where liquid ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Dubbed HD 20794 d (because HD 20794 is the name of its star and it is ... of its time in the habitable zone and is potentially rocky—that’d certainly make the system more attractive for ...

from its star to as close as 0.75 AU (112 million km/69.7 million miles). In the context of our solar system, Mars — on the outer edge of our habitable zone — orbits our sun at an average ...

With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...

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With next-generation telescopes, tiny space probes, and more, scientists aim to search for life beyond our solar system ... planets in their star’s so-called habitable zone, where conditions ...

Astronomers have discovered HD 20794 d, a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a star just ... Dumusque adds. This star has already hosted multiple discoveries, with HD 20794 d being the ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...