Now, a new weirdo is being added to this collection of space oddities—an eyeball super-Earth. LHS 1140 b orbits around a low-density M-type main sequence star, otherwise known as a red dwarf ...

The research suggests that 10 to 20% of LHS 1140 b's mass could be composed of water. Current models indicate it might be a snowball planet with a bull's-eye ocean about 4,000 kilometers in ...