A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The ...

The team discovered that the surface might contain liquid water, an essential ingredient for life. Astronomers from the, Irvine have discovered a planet orbiting within the “habitable zone” of its ...

Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

A newly identified super-Earth orbiting a nearby star has rapidly climbed to the top of astronomers’ wish lists for worlds ...

This artist's concept illustrates the results of a new study that measured the masses of many planets relative to the stars that host them, leading to new information about populations of planets in ...

NASA has discovered a new super-Earth that has a year only lasting a few hours. The exoplanet K2-141b, was found very close to its orange sun-like star, and has an orbital period of less than one ...

Newly identified planet GJ 251 c orbits a nearby m-dwarf, offering promising target for future life-detection missions - ...