Washington, May 29 : A landmark meeting of astronomers has announced the discovery of a huge haul of exoplanets in our galaxy, which hold great significance in the hunt for “super-Earths” – rocky alien worlds a few times more massive than our own.
“This really changes things,” said Sara Seager of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who attended the International Astronomical Union meeting in Boston. “It marks the beginning of the detailed exploration of super-Earths,” she added.