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The article discusses research by earth and planetary scientist Takehiro Miyagoshi, to be reported in "Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets," on geological simulations of super-Earths, or extrasolar planets of a certain size range, indicating they are unlikely to have crusts composed of plates.

The article discusses a study into the formation of super-Earths with speculation on the formation of super-Earths in disks with planet-building material and mention of astronomer Wei Zhu's role in the research.

The article discusses the use of computer simulations by Laura Schaefer and colleagues to investigate how the mass of a planet affects its water cycle, which found that super-Earth's grow oceans for billions of years while small planets build oceans fast and cannot sustain their water cycles.