Armed with the Earth and Planets Laboratory's state-of-the-art high-pressure facilities, our researchers simulate the intense pressures and temperatures found within a planet's mantle and core. By ...

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Earth" planet was discovered by researchers. It is not believed these planets are more common than previously thought.

Super Earth found orbiting its star farther out than Saturn from the Su The microlensing technique was used to perform the study Scientists predict the scope of more ...

shows that super-Earths are common and places them in context with gas giant planets. Credit: Westlake University Astronomers have found a new super-Earth, a planet larger than Earth but smaller than ...

which is twice as big as Earth, yet smaller than Neptune. It is believed that there are more such super-Earths outside our solar system. It is common to have such planets orbiting their stars.