This Super-Earth's lead-like density puts it in a very exclusive club. It's twice Earth's density of 5.5 grams per cubic ...

Imagine a massive planet, barely larger than Earth, lurking between Mars and Jupiter, creating chaos in our Solar System.

Could a world just slightly larger than Earth between Mars and Jupiter have made our planet uninhabitable? This question is ...

Simulations reveal how a super-Earth near Mars could destabilise Earth's orbit and climate, jeopardising life.

NASA is always on the hunt for planets like our own, and recently found a new super-Earth by the name of TOI-715b. The planet is larger than our own, but it’s position and makeup mean that it ...

Planetary scientists recently simulated an alternate version of our solar system: one with a super-Earth causing climate chaos on Earth, Mars and Venus. One of the most common types of planets in ...

Over many millions of years, NASA suspects the young world could mature into either of the most common planets found in our Milky Way galaxy: a "super-Earth" or mini-Neptune.

It consists of two planets orbiting a star similar to our sun: K2-360 b: An ultra-short period "super-Earth" (rocky planet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune) about 1.6 times the size of ...