The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA’s confirmed exoplanet archive

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The strangest thing about our solar system may be what it is missing. Line up the planets by size and there is a clean jump. Earth is the largest rocky planet. Neptune is nearly four times wider. Between them, there is nothing. No planet 1.5 times Earth’s radius. No 2.5-Earth-radius world wrapped in a thick [...] The post The most common type of planet in the known galaxy is one that does not exist in our solar system — a world larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, a size our own neighbourhood entirely skipped, now counted in the thousands across NASA’s confirmed exoplanet archive appeared first on Space Daily .