SuperEarth

A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth. This is the first discovery by a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope and offers a chance to investigate the possibility…

One of the exoplanets Webb will study is called 55 Cancri e; it has some Earth-like qualities but is super hot. This is a type of planet called a super-Earth, which means it is potentially rocky like Earth but is larger than…