Is this the most important planet outside the solar system?

A small planet, just a bit bigger than Earth, has been spotted in our stellar neighborhood, just 39 light-years away. 

Known as GJ 1132b, it is the closest rocky exoplanet to have ever been found, and astronomers say it could provide our most in-depth look yet at an alien world not so different...

via L.A. Times - Science http://ift.tt/1NruBMC