Some recent discoveries:
- MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb, as already discussed on this forum, marks the discovery of the first planet less massive than the two massive terrestrials around the pulsar PSR 1257+12. The third planet, PSR 1257+12 A (discovered in 1994, before 51 Pegasi b!) has a mass comparable that of the Moon and remains as the by far smallest known extrasolar planet, a title it has held for almost one and half decades despite misleading PR releases.
- The orange giant HD 102272 has a planetary system consisting of two massive Jovians. The outer planet orbits in a very eccentric orbit.
The discovery of MOA-2007-BLG-192Lb is remarkable in two ways: firstly, it suggests that terrestrials may form around the smallest stars and brown dwarfs, and that such planets may be very common. Secondly, our ability to detect that small deviations in gravitational lensing curves implies that the first true extrasolar Earth analogs will be found rather soon. Indeed, there are already rumors of such detections although they're not yet confirmed. But it does seem that terrestrial planets are very common also around more "normal" stars.