Newly discovered Star Trek world ‘dead ringer’ for Spock’s home planet

The Dharma Planet Survey has shown that science fiction may be a little less so

Potentially habitable super-Earth discovered 200-light-years away

Out of the 15 recently discovered exoplanets in this study, one super-Earth could potentially support liquid water

Observations of the GJ 9827 system contain three exoplanets that could be super-Earths or mini-Neptunes

While measuring the physical characteristics of K2-18b, a neighbouring planet was discovered in the process

The alien worlds discovered so far show an unexplained gap between two types of exoplanet

The exoplanet’s atmosphere could be rich in water and methane

For the first time astronomers have been able to analyse the atmosphere of 55 Cancri e

Three super-Earths and a “small Saturn” have been found relatively close to us

We take a look at the atmospheres of some distant worlds to find out