Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was suspected ...

They know that it is a sub-Neptune planet with a radius 2.35 times that of our planet, and so a volume 13 times that of Earth ...

An astronomer at Columbia University is suggesting that because life emerged so soon on Earth after its formation, it may emerge rapidly on Earth-like planets ... evidence. A 10:1 odds ratio ...

Experts suspect that the planet spotted could be a gateway to finding out what the Solar System’s neighbors are like. Madyson Barber, one of the astronomers studying the discovery along with its dwarf ...

The levels of DMS and DMDS on K2-18b are 10 parts per million by volume ... and analysis accelerates the search for Earth-like habitable planets, such as K2-18b, outside our solar system.