Daily Telegraph - Planetary scientists who discovered them believe there could be rocky planets, like Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, closer to ... Sooner rather than later, someone can be expected to discover an Earth-mass planet orbiting a star other than the sun - and ...
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