Life on Mars? Pu-Leze, thats so 2002… Scientets claim that they have discovered a planet that may allow liquid water and may even be harboring extra-terrestrial life! 

Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists discovered something they called “a super-Earth”- about 5 times the mass of our planet-that orbits a star included in the category of red dwarfs. The star, dubbed Gliese 581, is already known to be orbited by a Neptune-mass planet (fifteen to seventeen earth masses). The Neptune-mass exo-planet orbits just 6 million kilometers (0.04 AU) from Gliese 581, and so is estimated to have a surface temperature of 150 °C, despite how dim the star is. It orbits its host star in 5.4 days. 

I know that's all technical, and you probably stopped reading halfway through and skipped to this sentence, so let me summarize for you…  

Big Planet.

20 light years away 

Close to sun.

Either Liquid water or rocks. Sun is Red.

nuff said 
-Aleon