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Earth” that sits in the temperate zone of its star, instantly vaulting it into the short list of worlds that might be able to ...

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Michigan State University astrophysicists are closing in on one of space science’s biggest mysteries: where the galaxy’s most ...

There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other places in the universe that might harbor life. We only know of one ...