There’ve been many newly-discovered candidates in recent years for solar systems like our own, but this latest, the work of researchers from eleven countries (led by Ohio State) and published in the journal Science, appears to be the best of the bunch–finding the giant gas planets sufficiently far from the sun to leave room for rocky planets like Earth. If so, then the home planet would be alone no more.
UPDATE: Indeed, many, if not most, nearby sunlike stars may have rocky, Earthlike planets.
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