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Nearby 'Super-Earth' discovered could be 'Rosetta Stone' in search for alien life

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The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxAstronomers have discovered a new "Super-Earth" near our own solar system which they say could be pivotal in searching for extraterrestrial life.While Gliese 486 b isn't a promising candidate for life itself as it's thought to be covered in lava, researchers hope it could be the "Rosetta Stone of exoplanetology".It qualifies as a Super-Earth, defined as an exoplanet (outside the solar system) with a mass greater than Earth, but smaller than ice giants Uranus and Neptune.

Gliese 486 b's mass is 2.8 times that of Earth and is located in our "celestial neighbourhood" only 26.3 light years away, making it among the closest exoplanets.It's.

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