An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

Earth, HD 20794 d, orbiting a nearby sun-like star, offering a promising lead in the search for life beyond our planet.

HD 20794 d, a planet with six times Earth's mass, orbits a sun-like star 20 light years away. Its position within the habitable zone suggests conditions that could allow liquid water to exist.

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 ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The new findings ...

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The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

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An international team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of the exoplanet HD 20794 d, which could potentially support ...

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

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SETI scientists suggest that extraterrestrial civilizations could detect Earth through 'technosignatures' like planetary ...