What is the Most Common Type of Planet in the Galaxy?

For the past decade, astronomers thought they had a reasonable answer to that question. Around stars like our Sun, the two dominant planet types are sub-Neptunes, worlds resembling a shrunken Neptune, with thick gaseous envelopes, and super-Earths, rocky planets up to ten times the mass of our own.

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