'Super Earth': NASA discovers 10B year-old planet unlike any other in deep space - Fox News

A number of planets described as Super-Earths have been discovered in recent memory, but researchers have recently spotted one unlike any other found to date.

"The rocky planet orbiting TOI-561 is one of the oldest rocky planets yet discovered," said the study's lead author, Lauren Weiss, in a statement. "Its existence shows that the universe has been forming rocky planets almost since its inception 14 billion years ago." .

Artist’s rendition of TOI-561, one of the oldest, most metal-poor planetary systems discovered yet in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Given its close proximity to TOI-561, discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), it has an estimated average surface temperature of over 2,000 degrees Kelvin.

"Though this particular planet is unlikely to be inhabited today, it may be a harbinger of a many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around our galaxy’s oldest stars."

Separately in October, scientists discovered two planets, including a "Super-Earth," orbiting a red dwarf 120 light-years from Earth