SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 2 (UPI) -- A University of California astronomer has measured the size and mass of an exoplanet located almost next door to us by astronomical standards, the school says.
Diana Dragomir, a postdoctoral astronomer at UC Santa Barbara, has made the measurement of a "super-Earth" orbiting the star HD 97658 just 70 light years from Earth, the university reported Monday.