The galaxy’s most common planets are missing from its most common stars

Around stars like our Sun, the most common planets aren’t giant Jupiters but smaller cousins: sub‑Neptunes, which resemble Neptune but on a reduced scale, and super‑Earths, rocky worlds up to ten times Earth’s mass. For nearly a decade, astronomers have known these two planet types are everywhere around Sun‑like stars. But here’s the catch: Sun‑like […]

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