HD 20794 d, with a mass six times that of Earth, orbits a star similar to our sun. The planet’s location within the habitable ...

The planet was originally identified two years earlier by Oxford University scientist Dr Michael Cretignier. The new findings ...

An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star.

The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six times greater than that of Earth, and orbits in the ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable 'super-Earth' exoplanet, HD 20794 d, was published in the scientific journal ...

Earth's unusual orbit through hot and cold conditions tests the limits of tolerability for any known lifeforms.

New research points toward an exoplanet that may be capable of supporting life 20 light-years away from Earth.

Well, we could be closer to discovering whether there really is alien life out there after researchers discovered a new 'super-Earth' which is six times bigger than our planet and may well inhabit ...

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