Lightest exoplanet yet discovered
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - 11:14
in Astronomy & Space
'The holy grail of current exoplanet research is the detection of a rocky, Earth-like planet in the 'habitable zone' - a region around the host star with the right conditions for water to be liquid on a planet's surface,' says Michel Mayor from the Geneva Observatory, who led the European team to this stunning breakthrough...