Earth' planet named HD 20794 d, which could have conditions suitable for lifeThe planet has a mass six times greater than ...

Artist's concept of a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star called HD 20794. Illustration credit: Gabriel Pérez ...

Astronomers have identified a super-Earth orbiting a Sun-like star just 20 light-years away, making it one of the closest and ...

An international team, including the UNIGE, has discovered a super-Earth that will enable astronomers to test new hypotheses in the search for life in the Universe.

With an orbit of 647 days, HD 20794 d is similar to Mars in our solar system. However, its orbit around the star is highly ...

As it orbits its star, it moves close enough at one point to experience extreme heat, similar to Venus’s temperature. But at its farthest point, the planet is nearly twice the distance from Earth to ...

This newly discovered planet, HD 20794 d, is located just 20 light-years away, orbiting within the habitable zone of a star. Based on more than two decades of astronomical data, these findings are an ...

Scientists have identified HD 20794 d, a super-Earth in the habitable zone of its star, just 19.7 light-years away. Its proximity and brightness make it an excellent candidate for future atmospheric ...

But at this point, we don't even know if the planet HD 20794 d has an atmosphere, much less a proverbial warm little pond. These are issues tackled in the new book Is Earth Exceptional?

IT’S been nearly 40 years since the first planet outside of our Solar System was discovered. Since then, more than 5,800 weird and wonderful worlds across 4,300 planetary systems have been ...

Named HD 20794 D, the newly discovered exoplanet ... movement also allowed scientists to determine the planet's size as six times the mass of Earth – "the larger the wobble, the greater the ...

A new world has just been found orbiting a Sun-like star only 20 light-years away, and it could be one of the most promising ...