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  1. 19562

    It seems to me that “Earthlike” is overused in the media. One always ends up using too many qualifiers. Gliese 876’s orbit is very un-Earthlike, and its mass is too. Let’s wait until the star-to-planet distance of a future exoplanet ranges from that of Venus to Mars and the mass is no more than twice […]

    By Science News
  2. Planetary Science

    Planet Hunt Strikes Rock: Hot kin of Earth orbits nearby star

    Astronomers have found the closest known cousin to Earth, a solid world just 15 light-years beyond the solar system.

    By Ron Cowen
  3. Astronomy

    Making waves

    Locked in a deadly embrace, two white dwarf stars may be the strongest source of gravitational waves now flooding our galaxy.