super earths

Hot Super-Earth Discovered Orbiting Ancient Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 23, 2020
An international team of astronomers has discovered a close-in super-Earth exoplanet in the HD 164922 planetary system.

By David Aragorn
Planet-Hunters Discover Incredibly Rare Super-Earth – “One in a Million”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 14, 2020
Astronomers at the University of Canterbury (UC) have found an incredibly rare new Super-Earth planet towards the center of the galaxy. The planet is one of only a handful that have been discovered with both size and orbit comparable to that of Earth.

By David Aragorn
Gliese 338Bb: Super-Earth Found in Nearby Binary System 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 9, 2020
Astronomers using the CARMENES spectrograph at Calar Alto Observatory in Spain have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the binary system Gliese 338. The newfound planet orbits on the inner edge of the habitable zone and is much more massive than Earth.

By David Aragorn
What if Earth were a super-Earth?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 11, 2020
What if Earth were more like its larger cousins?

By David Aragorn
Nasa spacecraft spots gaseous planet three times the size of Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2019
Tess mission has detected three new planets and six supernovae in its first three months

By David Aragorn
Frozen Super-Earth Found Orbiting Barnard’s Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- November 21, 2018
A potentially rocky super-Earth orbits one of our closest stellar neighbors, Barnard’s star, only 6 light-years away.

By David Aragorn
Astronomers Find Super-Earth with Mercury-Like Composition: K2-229b 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type dwarf star K2-229. What’s the most intriguing is that one of these extrasolar planets is a super-Earth class object with a Mercury-like composition.

By David Aragorn
Found: Three Super-Earths in Orbit around Cool Dwarf Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 30, 2018
Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have found a triple system of super-Earth exoplanets around a cool star called LP 415-17.

By David Aragorn
All the biggest and best space discoveries of 2017 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 30, 2017
We learned more about neutron stars, found more planets and said goodbye to Cassini in 2017. We end the year with a better picture of the Universe than we started it with.

By David Aragorn
Super-Earths 10 Times More Massive than Earth –“Magnetic Fields Could Allow Them to Harbor Life”0
- From Around the Web, Space
- June 30, 2017
With the discovery of thousands of planets beyond the solar system, scientists are eager to learn if rocky “super-Earths,” up to 10 times more massive than Earth, might also be able to harbor life.

By David Aragorn