Researchers have found three new exoplanets orbiting a nearby star 12 light-years away. “We are now one step closer [to] getting a census of rocky planets in the solar neighborhood,” Ignasi Ribas, a researcher at the Institute of Space Sciences, said in a keynote address in Barcelona, Spain, online science portal Astronomy.com reported. All three rocky exoplanets, a term which refers to planets outside the solar system, are thought to ...