Super-Earth Exoplanets

The Discovery A huge planet with a long name – IRAS 04125+2902 b – is really just a baby: only…

On Aug. 24, 2023, more than three decades after the first confirmation of planets beyond our own solar system, scientists…

The discovery A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani A – host to Mr. Spock’s fictional home planet,…

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet…

A newly discovered 'super-Earth' dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized…

A new study could explain the ‘missing’ exoplanets between super-Earths and sub-Neptunes. Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres…