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An artist's impression of Gliese 581 e with its star in the distance. Photo by scienceblogs.com
Astronomers have announced Tuesday the discovery of the lightest planet ever detected outside our Solar System.
It is only about twice as massive as the Earth, and is situated in the constellation Libra, BBC reported. Most other planets identified outside our Solar System have been far bigger.
"This is just one more step in the search for the twin of the Earth... At the beginning, we discovered Jupiter-like planets several hundred times the mass of the Earth; and now we have the sensitivity with new instruments to detect very small planets very close to that of the Earth", Michel Mayor, from the Geneva Observatory, Switzerland, said.
The scientists say the planet's orbit takes it far too close to its star Gliese 581 for life to be possible.
The detection was made by an international team of researchers using a 3,6 meters telescope at La Silla, Chile.
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US-based company Tesla is trying to boost its solar panel business with a new marketing approach - customers will be able to rent the technology rather than buy it, the Associated Press reported.
The Earth's natural satellite is more ancient than previously thought.
A giant crater that was formed when a meteorite smashed into Earth, has been uncovered deep below Greenland’s ice sheets, according to the Independent.
The US space agency has discovered a whole solar system with the same number of planets as ours, reports BNT.
Astronomers have found a cool, Earth-sized planet that's relatively close to our Solar System, reported BBC.
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