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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

This promising planet is a super-Earth, a telluric planet larger than the Earth. It is part of a planetary system containing two other planets. It orbits a G-type star, like the sun, at a distance ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have found an exoplanet – a planet outside our own solar system – more than six times the size of Earth. The exoplanet, named HD 20794 d, orbits in ...

Astronomers have just uncovered an intriguing planet not far from us in cosmic terms. It’s a super-Earth, orbiting a star similar to our Sun, and it might have the conditions necessary to support life ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to ... but it never actually entered into an orbit around our planet. However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as ...

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