Newly-discovered planet has similarities to Earth

Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 08:31 in Astronomy & Space

It turns out the next star over in our corner of the galaxy has a planet that looks a lot like ours. It is the closest potentially habitable world ever detected outside our solar system. Charlie D'Agata reports on why astronomers are so excited.

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