This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team. The new planet lies in an eccentric orbit, so that it oscillates in and out of its star's habitable zone.

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

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 climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of extraterrestrial beings, per a cosmic study published in the ...

Credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD 20794d ...

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. Thirty years after the ...

Just how this cosmic waltz would look with a 'super-Earth' in place of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is a question posed by planetary scientists Emily Simpson and Howard Chen from the ...

(Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC)) (CN) — With the discovery of a new "super-Earth," astronomers are hoping it could help answer one of the biggest questions in science: Are we alone in the ...

the University of La Laguna (ULL) have confirmed the existence of a new super-Earth planet, HD 20794 d, in the habitable zone around the Sun-like star 82 Eridanus (HD 20794). This discovery is the ...

Researchers have discovered an Earth-like planet with such an eccentric orbit that it swoops in and out of its habitable zone throughout its year. Though the super-Earth could theoretically be ...

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