Hycean worlds are also called ocean worlds. They're planets covered in oceans that also have thick hydrogen atmospheres.

The researches say that the Hycean Habitable Zone (HHZ), when compared to the terrestrial habitable zone, may include smaller ...

Kepler-725c may belong to a new class of habitable super-Earths (alternatively known as 'mini-Neptunes') known as Hycean planets. It has been proposed that Hycean planets, with massive oceans and ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

An international team of astronomers led by China's Yunnan Observatories has identified a potentially habitable super-Earth using a novel detection method, marking a major breakthrough in exoplanet ...

The discovery of the exoplanet, a super-Earth called Kepler-735c, is all down to something called transit timing variations, ...

With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing ...