Don’t get deceived by their huge size like that of Jupiter. The gravititional strength of all the 14 known gas giant planets outside our solar system is surprisingly found to be much closer to that of Earth! — and not as intense as that...

ET, a telescope turbo-charger has found its first planet outside the solar system. Astronomers have described it as if it is a suitcase in space tracking possible faraway Earths. To find a world like ours that orbits a different star, these two...