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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

Researchers analysed two decades of observations to confirm the discovery of planet HD 20794 d (Gabriel Perez Diaz, SMM (IAC)/PA) Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may ...

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Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life, according to the University of Oxford. The exoplanet – a planet outside our solar system – has a mass six ...

Scientists have discovered a “super-Earth” planet that may have conditions suitable for life. The planet is outside our solar system and has a mass six times greater than that of Earth.

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy. They confirmed the existence of a rocky planet, called a "super-Earth," that's some six times as massive as Earth. While the world HD 20794 d is ...

The researchers were inspired by a puzzling fact: many Solar Systems like our own are predicted to have super-Earth planets relatively close to their sun, so it's rather strange that ours doesn't.