Super "Earth" found

Astronomers have discovered a large rocky planet about 14 times the size of the earth with an atmosophere orbiting a mere 50 light years away. It also appear to be orbiting in a possibly life-friendly distance from its parent star. This is the smallest of the exo-solar planets discovered so far, with all the others being large gas giants like Jupiter. The reason for this deviation in planet type is because our current techniques of finding planets are limited to only large planets circling close to their parent star. This ups the ante for future discoveries of other non gas giant planets.