The super-Earth discovery was a fortuitous event that UC described as "one in a million." Of those 53 planets that astronomers have deemed potentially habitable, about 30 are known as “super-Earths." Volume increases as a cube and surface area as a square, so even a slightly bigger planet would have much stronger gravity. The toasty super-Earth 55 Cancri e is relatively close to Earth at 41 light-years away. The gravity would be 10 times larger than Earth's gravity. right down. Astronomers call them super-Earths. But if there is life on them, gravity might be trapping them there. The astronomers used a gravitational microlensing technique to spot the planet. Astronomers are discovering they may be one of the most common planets in our galaxy. A super-Earth is a planet that's similar to Earth, but larger. To find the super-Earth, Martin and the other researchers used a gravitational microlensing technique. Experience the Gravity of a Super Earth. It orbits very close to its star, whipping around it every 18 hours. According to the study, the super-Earth's host star is about 10% the mass of our sun, and the planet would have a mass somewhere between that of Earth and Neptune. Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307g straddles the line between "Super-Earth" and "mini-Neptune" and scientists aren't sure if it has a rocky surface or one that's buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice. If a planet had eight Earth masses and 2.83 times the radius, its surface gravity would be exactly 1g. It … But it’s amazingly easy to imagine a super-Earth with a comfortable gravity. Because of the planet's proximity to the star, it is tidally locked by gravity just as our Moon is to Earth. A solid super-Earth has a radius that scales to the 0.26-0.27 power of its mass, relative to Earth. The super-Earth Kepler 62f, estimated to be around 40% larger than Earth. 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