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Earth-like planets may be closer than thought: study
Scientists looking for habitable planets may not have to stray far from our galactic neighborhood, said a new study Wednesday, which calculated an Earth-size planet could be orbiting a red dwarf as near as 13 light years away. “We thought we would have to search vast distances to find an…
Earth’s twin will be discovered in 2013, astronomers predict
Humanity is likely to discover its first truly Earth-like planet in 2013, according to the director of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. “I’m very positive that the first Earth twin will be discovered next year,” Abel Mendez told Space.com. Mendez is leading the…
Study: Milky Way may harbor ‘billions’ of potentially habitable planets
A study published this week suggests that there may be “tens of billions” of planets in the Milky Way galaxy that fall within what scientists call “the Goldilocks zone,” where the conditions for spawning life are thought to exist. Working with a relatively new technology called the HARPS spectrograph, located…
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