Super-Earth News
New Zealand's Antonio Martin, the paper’s lead author, describes the planet-finding discovery as incredibly rare.
Earlier, astronomers have discovered a number of nearby exoplanets - or planets outside our solar system - that could harbour life like Proxima b and the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets.
The map of super-Earth 55 Cancri e was created using temperature data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
"Forbidden" substances can increase heat transfer rates and strengthen magnetic fields on massive Earth-like planets that may eventually help harbour living organisms, scientists say.
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