Science: World Sees More Planets

Society | September 3, 2004, Friday // 00:00

US astronomers claim they have found two more Neptune-sized planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System.

Using telescopes in Hawaii, California and Texas, the astronomers have found the first Neptune-size planets outside our Solar System. The scientists say their discovery of the smallest worlds yet seen circling other stars is a breakthrough in the search for other Earths and for life in space. They are only about 15 times more massive than the Earth.

One of the new planets is in the first four-planet system ever discovered. One of them could be only 14 times the mass of the Earth, which may be small enough to have a solid surface and possibly temperatures conducive to life.

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