**Astronomers have announced a haul of planets found beyond our Solar System.**The 32 “exoplanets” range in size from six times to 20 times the mass of Earth, researchers said.
They were found using the HARPS spectrograph for the European Southern Observatory (ESO’s) 3.6m telescope at La Silla in Chile.
The discovery is exciting because it suggests that low-mass planets could be numerous in our galaxy.
The researchers propose that 40% of Sun-like stars could host low-mass planets like Earth.
The discovery now takes the number of known exoplanets to more than 400.