A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...

The planet is about six times more massive than Earth and could be rocky, offering a unique opportunity to study a heavier ...

With an orbit of 647 days, HD 20794 d is similar to Mars in our solar system. However, its orbit around the star is highly ...

Earth, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around a Sun-like star 20 light-years away. With a mass six times that of Eart ...

Could a giant planet between Mars and Jupiter have doomed Earth? A new study suggests that small changes would have been ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

Disaster has struck yet again in Helldivers 2 's Galactic War. A second planet has been blown to smithereens by the Meridia ...

At least two mass extinction events in Earth's history were likely caused by the "devastating" effects of nearby supernova ...

Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and ...