Astronomers detect icy 'super-Earth'

Giant planet orbits star 9,000 light-years away WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A cold, heavy "super-Earth" has been found orbiting a distant star through a method that holds promise for detecting faraway planets that closely resemble our own, astronomers said Monday. The planet weighs 13 times as much as Earth and is orbiting a star about 9,000 light-years away. Andrew Gould, an Ohio State University professor who heads the planet-hunting group MicroFUN -- short for Microlensing Follow-Up Network -- said ...""these icy super-Earths are pretty common. Roughly 35 percent of all stars have them." In the past decade, scientists have detected some 170 so-called extrasolar planets, using a variety of techniques. The vast majority are gas giant planets like Jupiter which are hostile to life as it is known on Earth. COMPLETE ARTICLE

So... my question is, do any of you believe in all the many galaxies that exist in the universe, and all the possibilities for "super Earths" or any other kind of "Earth" out there, could there be a planet capable of sustaining life such as our own Earth does? And what kind of form(s) do you think that "life" would take?