The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...

A newly discovered exoplanet, located just 35 light-years from Earth, could be one of the most promising places to search for ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists discovered it after tracing back a flickering light recorded by NASA’s ...

A super-Earth exoplanet has been detected within the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star, where liquid water might ...

Kepler-725c's mass is quite significant — 10 times greater than the mass of Earth. This places it in the upper echelons of a type of planet called super-Earths — giant, probably rocky worlds.

L 98-59 is a small red dwarf located just 35 light-years from Earth. In 2019, NASA's TESS space telescope found that it hosts ...

Scientists have confirmed a potentially habitable fifth planet in the nearby L 98-59 system, revealing a diverse collection ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

These super-Earths orbit sun-like stars and tend to be habitable planet candidates, since their conditions most resemble those we know to support life.