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Published online 21 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.379
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Exoplanets lighten up
More Earth-like planets spotted outside our solar system.
A solar system more than six parsecs away from Earth may hold two planetary record-breakers: the lightest exoplanet ever spotted, and another planet just the right distance from its star to harbour liquid water.
Michel Mayor, from Switzerland's Geneva Observatory, announced the findings on 21 April at a meeting for the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
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