Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies ...

In the quest to find approximately Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" i.e. neither too hot nor too cold) ...

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 ...

Furthermore, to keep our comparison with our very own old, long-in-the-tooth planet, this youngster is 10 times the size of the Earth. It has a third of the mass of Jupiter. We could say that we have ...

We don’t know much about them, but at least one of them is approximately Earth ... planet to complete an orbit and how much light it blocks as it passes in front of the star offer clues to its ...

Thanks to instruments such as NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have found more than 3,800 planets orbiting other stars, some of which are about the size of Earth, and a handful of which ...