Researchers from a dozen nations

Researchers from a dozen nations have used the "microlensing" effect of an intervening star's gravity to spot the smallest extrasolar planet yet, an icy body only 5.5 times as massive as Earth orbiting a red dwarf star in the constellation Sagittarius more than 20,000 light-years distant. And...

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