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An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...

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U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" ...

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Scientists noticed that the twins eclipse each other so one is always partly ... us understand how conditions beyond our solar system may yield planets vastly different from our own, said study ...