Super Earths
Two Super-Earths Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star at the Edge of the Habitable Zone
NASA's TESS mission has turned up hundreds of planets and planetary candidates, and here are two more.
Astronomers still scratching their heads over population of ocean-world exoplanets
In a recent study submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, an international team of researchers led by the University of…
Could Life Survive on Frigid Exo-Earths? Maybe Under Ice Sheets
Our understanding of habitability relies entirely on the availability of liquid water. All life on Earth needs it, and there's…
The Challenges of an Alien Spaceflight Program: Escaping Super Earths and Red Dwarf Stars
According to two new papers submitted by a Harvard Professor and an independent scientists, extra-terrestrials might have a hard time…
A New Planetary System Has Been Found with Three Super Earths
A team of astronomers recently discovered a system of three exoplanets that are just 100 light years from Earth, making…
Two new Super-Earths Discovered Around a Red Dwarf Star
While examining a previously-discovered exoplanet, an international team of astronomers discovered a second Super-Earth around the star.
Discovery Of A Nearby Super Earth With Only 5 Times Our Mass
An international team of researchers have found another planet orbiting a red dwarf; in this case, a small super-Earth less…
Weekly Space Hangout – February 7, 2014: New Impact on Mars & A Wobbly Planet
Host: Fraser Cain Astrojournalists: Scott Lewis, Nicole Gugliucci, Morgan Rehnberg, Brian Koberlein, Elizabeth Howell, Amy Shira Teitel, David Dickinson This…
Transiting Super-Earth Detected Around Naked Eye Star
One of the first known stars to host an extrasolar planet, was that of 55 Cancri. The first planet in…
Ripped to Shreds, Exoplanet Suffers Painful Death
[/caption] WASP-12b, discovered in 2008, is a real outlier among the 400 or so exoplanets discovered to date. Not that…