NASA has announced the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star that shares several other similarities with ...

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An international team of planet hunters has found four new planets orbiting two nearby stars that are very similar to the Sun. These discoveries point the way to the detection of potentially habitable ...

An international team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Chicago, has made the rare discovery of a planetary system with a host star similar to Earth’s sun. Especially ...