Earth takes a full 365 days to complete an orbit of our Sun. On this newly-discovered super-Earth, a day is much shorter. In fact, the planet completes a full “year” in a mere 2.4 Earth days.

"We found a 'super-Earth'—meaning it's bigger than our home ... former Harvard undergraduate student Hangyue Wang (now at Stanford), and Sun-Ju Chung, a KASI scientist who visited CfA on ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider ... a planet-to-star mass ratio that roughly doubles the Earth-sun mass ratio. "We found a small planet in an orbit ...