Chinese research made successive breakthroughs in the search for 'super-Earths,' Huanqiu reported, as study observing and analyzing planets beyond the solar system grows more active.

A super-Earth is a rocky exoplanet with a mass between Earth's and Neptune's. Depending on distance from its star and atmospheric makeup, it may hold liquid water, making it a key target of habitability research.

Exoplanet study combines large telescopes, precise observation and vast data analysis. Research institutes worldwide and international collaborations share data and add discoveries, with advancing instruments accelerating results.

Such research is basic science—closer to humanity's fundamental question of whether we are alone in the universe than to immediate application. Each finding fills in a little more of the vast cosmic map.

Sinophone Bridge Times sees advances in basic science across borders as a shared human asset. The pursuit of the cosmos, beyond any one nation's achievement, widens the horizon of knowledge for all.