{"id":212365,"date":"2025-04-24T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/super-earths-are-common-outside-the-solar-system-new-study-shows"},"modified":"2025-04-24T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T02:11:28","slug":"super-earths-are-common-outside-the-solar-system-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/super-earths-are-common-outside-the-solar-system-new-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-earths-are-common-outside-the-solar-system-new-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star farther out than Saturn is to the sun.<\/p>\n<p>These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our solar system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a \u2018super-Earth\u2019\u2014meaning it\u2019s bigger than our home planet but smaller than Neptune\u2014in a place where only planets thousands or hundreds of times more massive than Earth were found before,\u201d said Weicheng Zang, a CfA Fellow. He is the lead author of a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn6088\" target=\"_blank\">describing<\/a> these results in the latest issue of the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star farther out than Saturn is to the sun. These results are another example of how planetary systems can be different from our solar system. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212365","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}