The confirmed discovery of exoplanets revolutionized our understanding of the universe. Among the thousands of confirmed exoplanets, HD 20794 d in particular, recently attracted attention for a unique ...

A super new moon won't be seen in Texas, but stars will be brighter than ever Saturday. Does Texas have any dark sky ...

The Super Pink Moon will illuminate the night sky during the second week of April. It is commonly known as the pink moon and ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a super-Earth that will allow astronomers to test new hypotheses in the quest for life in the Universe. The habitable zone around the star HD 20794 ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy.

Immune to toxic vents, these crabs rule Taiwan's depths as nature's ultimate survivors. For more Amazing Earth Highlights, ...

Dynamical evolution of a planetary system of close-in super-Earths and mini-Neptunes and an Earthlike planet at 1 au. It shows the evolution of the semimajor axis of planets that survived at the ...

A new study using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has taken a look at the Lupus molecular cloud complex, one of the closest and largest low-mass star-forming ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered 55 Cancri e, a super-Earth located 41 light-years away. This planet, five times larger than Earth, has extreme temperatures reaching 2,400°C and ...