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    One or more bound planets per Milky Way star from microlensing observations

    A statistical analysis of microlensing data from 2002–07 reveals that stars in the Milky Way are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than an exception.

    A. Cassan, D. Kubas, J.-P. Beaulieu, M. Dominik, K. Horne, J. Greenhill in Nature (2012)

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    Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing

    Over 170 extrasolar planets have so far been discovered, with a wide range of masses and orbital periods, but until last July no planet of Neptune's mass or less had been detected any more than 0.15 astronomic...

    J.-P. Beaulieu, D. P. Bennett, P. Fouqué, A. Williams, M. Dominik in Nature (2006)