Exoplanets bigger than Earth are more likely to have life

vikingo9 writes: By smashing a piece of iron to insanely high pressures, using a laser the size of a football stadium, a team of scientists led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have discovered that exoplanets 4-6 times larger than Earth have an increase chance of harboring biological life. Reported in the journal Science, this ground-breaking discovery suggests that the prospects of life on distant planets is higher than ever.