With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very ...

A huge "super-Earth" with an extreme climate that results in it being habitable for only part of its orbit has been discovered orbiting a star 2,472 light years away. And the most remarkable thing ...

"Are we alone?" This ancient question has occupied humanity's mind for a long time. In 1995, the discovery of the first ...

SCIENTISTS have stumbled across a new Super-Earth that orbits inside its star’s habitable zone with a new alien-hunting tool.

The breakthrough came using a cutting-edge observational method that detects unseen planets via subtle deviations in their ...

Kepler-725c is roughly 2,472 light years from Earth, circling a G9V star in about 207.5 days. Its path brings it into a ...

A super-Earth with extreme climatic conditions has been identified 2,472 light-years from our planet. This world, named ...

Image: An impression of the new Super-Earth, the exoplanet LHS 1140b. Pic: ESO/spaceengine.org US lead scientist Dr Jason Dittmann, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics ...

Earth, dubbed Kepler-725c, has been discovered orbiting within the habitable zone of its host star, offering new ...

Exoplanet science is shifting from finding any detectable exoplanets we can to searching for those in their stars' habitable ...

The newly discovered planet orbits a Sun-like star and might support liquid water, but don’t pack your bags just yet.