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Waterworld Discovered Transiting a Nearby Star, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Astronomers have announced that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star only 40 light-years from Earth. They found this nearby planet with a small fleet of ground-based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards. Although the super-Earth is too hot to sustain life, the discovery shows that current, ground-based technologies are capable of finding almost-Earth-sized planets in warm, life-friendly orbits."
This is a very strange world. How did something like this come to be so close to its parent star? This is definitely a world and a system worthy of further study.