An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it has a rocky composition similar to Earth and is almost four times as massive. Credit: Illustration by...
Artist’s rendering of a newly discovered super-Earth, LP 890-9 c, and its sister planet, LP 890-9 b, orbiting a red dwarf star some 98 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech. Public domain. Using advanced simulations, Rice University research on...