Light from an alien "super-Earth" twice the size of our own Earth has been detected by a NASA space telescope for the first time in what astronomers are calling a historic achievement. NASA's infrared ...

A planet circling a star in the constellation Cancer might have an atmosphere similar to Earth's, but with dayside temperatures hot enough to melt titanium, a new study suggests. The planet is called ...

Scientists identified evidence of the planet's atmosphere by finding three key features SCIENTISTS have discovered that a fiery hell planet may have its own atmosphere and is covered in a sea of ...

The atmosphere of a "super-Earth" exoplanet, the most common type of world in the galaxy, has been characterized for the first time ever. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected ...

Light glowing from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system has been detected by Nasa’s Spitzer Telescope. Until now, scientists have never been able to detect infrared light emanating from 55 ...

A FIERY hell-world that would instantly roast visitors alive has a vast lava ocean – and may be packed with rare gems. The bizarre alien world is even believed to have grown a second atmosphere after ...

For nearly twenty years, scientists have tracked puzzling signals from a massive planet known as '55 Cancri e.' The fiery 'hell planet' — a so-called super-Earth nearly 40 light years away — can reach ...