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Somewhere out there, a planet roughly the size of Earth may be orbiting a distant star in conditions that could support life.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new planetary habitability model could make the search for aliens more efficient by quickly identifying rocky worlds unlikely to ...