![An artist’s impression of the newly-discovered rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140b. This planet is located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140. The planet weighs about 6.6 times the mass of Earth and An artist’s impression of the newly-discovered rocky exoplanet, LHS 1140b. This planet is located in the liquid water habitable zone surrounding its host star, a small, faint red star named LHS 1140. The planet weighs about 6.6 times the mass of Earth and](/sites/default/files/styles/crop_square_2_2_to_320px/public/images/gallery/news/prensa1188_2493.jpg?itok=hXby7LzQ)
The detection, in which an IAC researcher took part, was made using the transit technique with the MEarth network of telescopes and the HARPS spectrograph on a telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. The results will be published tomorrow in the Nature magazine.
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