ESA paves the way for an avalanche of new extrasolar planet discoveries   This illustration shows a newly discovered Jupiter-like planet and its hypothetical moon (the blue orb) circling the star 55 Cancri. A previously known large planet is just to the left of the star and a hypothetical Earth-like planet to the right of the star.   About ESA's planet-search missions     In order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. Release date: 25 June 2003