the final frontier

What super Earths mean for finding life in the galaxy

by JoAnna Wendel
An image of the Super Earth captured by NASA.

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Our galaxy is full of planets orbiting countless stars, and scientists tentatively call some of them “Earth-like,” but what does that really mean?

“Super Earth” is a class of exoplanet in the size range between Earth and our solar system’s ice giants Neptune and Uranus.

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