Published on Monday, 11 August 2008 19:00 | | 
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an
exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After
just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than
The latest discovery, COROT-exo-4b is an exoplanet of about the same size as Jupiter. It takes 9.2 days to orbit its star, the second longest period for any transiting exoplanet ever found, more |