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The secret behind the formation of super-Earth and sub-Neptune exoplanets has been revealed, thanks to a study of four young planets that are evaporating. Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau ...

This shifts our entire perspective on what makes a planet “Earth-like.” Nature is far more creative than our own solar system suggests. The universe might be teeming with “magma-shielded” worlds that ...

The search for habitable planets in the wider universe just got a new contender. According to a study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of astronomers and ...

Could a recently discovered "super-Earth" have the potential temperature and conditions to sustain life? The new exoplanet is situated "fairly close to us" -- only 137 light-years away -- and orbits ...

Life may not get blasted off any of the known "super-Earth" worlds as readily as it can from our planet, scientists find. The discovery suggests that any intelligent aliens that develop on such ...

The newly discovered world is called GJ 251c and it is a super-Earth orbiting a red dwarf star less than 20 light-years away. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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