What Is a Super-Earth? - Science@NASA
Oct 28, 2024 · The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. Data from a worldwide array of telescopes, …
Super-Earth Exoplanets - NASA
Study Finds Earth’s Small Asteroid Visitor Likely Chunk of Moon Rock. article 3 days ago. 5 min read. How New NASA, India Earth Satellite NISAR Will See Earth. article 4 days ago. ... Super …
Largest Batch of Earth-size Habitable Zone Planets Found Orbiting ...
Oct 28, 2024 · In a press release on February 22, 2017, NASA announced the discovery of the most Earth-sized planets found in the habitable zone of a single star, called TRAPPIST-1. This …
Exoplanets - NASA Science
Jan 23, 2025 · An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called rogue planets, are untethered to any star. We’ve …
NASA’s James Webb telescope discovers its first Earth-sized exoplanet …
Jan 12, 2023 · NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first Earth-like exoplanet, and for the first time, researchers will be able to examine the planet’s atmosphere.
Exoplanet Catalog - NASA Science
Jan 23, 2025 · This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 5,800 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. …
Super-Earth discovery reveals an exoplanet potentially capable of ...
2 days ago · The exoplanet HD 20794 d, a super-Earth, has been discovered orbiting a G-type star 19.7 light-years away. It follows an eccentric orbit, oscillating in and out of the star's …
Researchers confirm the existence of an exoplanet in the …
2 days ago · An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby Sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by …
A super-Earth laboratory for searching life elsewhere in the Universe
1 day ago · Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, we detected more than 7000 of them in our Galaxy. ... 2024 — Astronomers have made the rare and tantalizing discovery of …
Super-Earth - Wikipedia
A Super-Earth or super-terran or super-tellurian is a type of exoplanet with a mass higher than Earth, but substantially below those of the Solar System's ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, …