In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of our own around a star much like the sun.
It could be a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere, a sort of "super Earth," the researchers said today.
If I'm not mistaken, only gas giants, probably unhabitable, have been discovered so far. If this is a rocky planet, it would probably be the first ever announced.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/08/...anet/index.html
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