We wait to see whether this 'super Earth' could already host life in space.

Webb Telescope detects an atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet once thought too small and hot to hold onto its ...

Super-Earth TOI-561b is about 40 times closer to its host star than Mercury is to the sun.

Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...

Webb’s latest observations reveal a hellish world cloaked in an unexpected atmosphere: TOI-561 b, an ultra-hot rocky planet ...

Astronomers have identified the clearest signs yet of an atmosphere around a rocky planet ...

An ultra-hot rocky exoplanet may be wrapped in a dense atmosphere, defying expectations about what small planets can sustain.

Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, ...

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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 habitable zone around the star HD 20794 and the trajectory of the three planets in the system. (Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)) (CN) — With the discovery of a new “super-Earth,” astronomers ...

Our Solar System is a carefully balanced celestial dance held together by a virtually perfect balance of gravity and inertia. The researchers were inspired by a puzzling fact: many Solar Systems like ...