Scientists discover alien 'super-Earth' planet described as 'one in a million'

dailystar.co.uk:

Scientists have discovered an astonishing "super-Earth" planet. Astronomers believe the planet is similar to our own in terms of size but four times the mass of ours.

But incredibly, the planet's year lasts 617 Earth days, and also has a dim dwarf star described as a "failed star". It has been named OGLE-2018-BLG-0677.

Dr Herrara Martin, the paper's lead author, said: “To have an idea of the rarity of the detection, the time it took to observe the magnification due to the host star was approximately five days, while the planet was detected only during a small five-hour distortion. “After confirming this was indeed caused by another ‘body’ different from the star, and not an instrumental error, we proceeded to obtain the characteristics of