Do We Live in the Rarest Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!

There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other places in the universe that might harbor life. We only know of one such planet so far: Earth. And so we get particularly excited when we find Earth-mass planets at the right distance from their...

23 min - Space & the Universe - PBS Space Time

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