Wednesday 1 May 2019

'Water Worlds' Are Common In Milky Way, Says Research. So Why Not In The Solar System?

'Water Worlds' Are Common In Milky Way, Says Research. So Why Not In The Solar System?

New research into data on exoplanets suggests that 'super-Earths' and water-rich 'sub-Neptunes' between two and four times bigger than Earth are likely to be water worlds containing at least 25% water-dominated ices or fluids, and not the gas dwarfs with a rocky core than many astronomers thought.

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