An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system that usually orbits a star in our galaxy. More than 7,000 have been found ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.

Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But ...

Found by Dr Michael Cretignier of the University of Oxford, the planet has a mass six times greater than Earth's and orbits ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

with the aim of finding life elsewhere in the Universe. This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team. The new planet lies in an eccentric orbit ...

The exoplanet, which has been named HD 20794 d, orbits in the ‘habitable zone’ of a nearby star similar to our sun.

The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.

The discovery of a planet that is just 20 light-years away has been said to be the closest Earth analogue that scientists ...