super-Earth

Young ‘cotton candy’ exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a cotton-candy-like Jupiter-sized planet located around 350 light-years away is shrinking and could ...

A Planet Just 41 Light-Years From Earth Has an Atmosphere and Is Covered in a Magma Ocean

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Scientists have spotted a rocky exoplanet with a possible atmosphere, which they believe may be burbling out from a magma ocean on ...

A scorching, rocky planet twice Earth’s size has a thick atmosphere, scientists say

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

DALLAS (AP) — A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar ...

As Blue Beams Rain In ‘Helldivers 2,’ There’s One Player On The Cyborg Homeworld

Technology
Michael Johnson

Blue Beams Arrowhead It appears we cannot go more than a day or two without some new Helldivers 2 mystery, as the ...

Potentially habitable ‘super-Earth’ spotted 137 light-years away

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have ...

NASA exoplanet telescope discovers ‘super-Earth’ in its star’s Goldilocks zone

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has spotted a ‘super-Earth’ planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a relatively nearby red dwarf ...

‘Super-Earth’: Nasa discovers a potentially habitable planet, 137 light-years away

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

NEW DELHI: US space agency Nasa has made the discovery of a “super-Earth,” a planet potentially capable of supporting life, situated 137 ...

Some exoplanets are shrinking. Here’s why

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

The air around a few planets beyond our solar system is leaking away into space, causing these worlds to get smaller, astronomers ...