Billions of Earth ‘twins’ may exist in Milky way

Tuesday, January 8, 2013 - 11:00 in Astronomy & Space

Our Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.

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