{"id":209949,"date":"2025-03-28T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/super-earths-and-mini-neptunes-more-earth-like-planets-may-exist"},"modified":"2025-03-28T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T18:07:02","slug":"super-earths-and-mini-neptunes-more-earth-like-planets-may-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/super-earths-and-mini-neptunes-more-earth-like-planets-may-exist","title":{"rendered":"Super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: More Earth-like planets may exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-earths-and-mini-neptunes-more-earth-like-planets-may-exist.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes \u2013 planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes \u2014 planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary evolution beyond our solar system. The findings were recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, scientists have debated how super-Earths and mini-Neptunes form. Traditional models have suggested that planetesimals \u2014 the tiny building blocks of planets \u2014 formed across wide regions of a young star\u2019s disk. But Shibata and Izidoro suggest a different theory: These materials likely come together in narrow rings at specific locations in the disk, making planet formation more organized than previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes \u2013 planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings of planetesimals, providing fresh insight into planetary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}