(CNN) -- Astronomers announced this week they found a water-rich and relatively nearby planet that's similar in size to Earth... Planet GJ 1214b is classified as a "super-Earth" because it is between one and 10 times as large as Earth. Full story:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/16/super.earth.discovery/index.html
* NASA and Planet X (YOWUSA.COM, 12-August-07 - Marshall Masters):
NASA Press Release 1992 - "Unexplained deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune point to a large outer solar system body of 4 to 8 Earth masses, on a highly tilted orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun.":
http://yowusa.com/planetx/2007/planetx-2007-08b/1.shtml
* Astronomers Discover Earth-Like Planet Outside Solar System... Scientists from the European Southern Observatory working in Chile have found a new planet outside our solar system that is more like Earth than any other known planet... Like Earth, the new planet "Gliese 581c" orbits its sun in "the habitable zone." The estimated surface temperature is between minus 3 and 40 degrees celsius -- neither too cold nor too hot for life as we know it. This means there could be liquid water on the planet's surface:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2009/01/astronomers-discover-earth-like-planet.html
