"Now that an Earth-like planet has been found orbiting Gilese 581, what plans does NASA have to explore the possibilities of life on this planet?"
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Found: Earth-Like Planet
May 1, 2007 / Posted by: Shige Abe
A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star’s “habitable zone,” where life could exist, possibly in oceans of water.
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