Stories Related to Anybody Out There? 140 'earths' Found

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Sun, 07/25/2010 - 7:10pm

Scientists celebrated Sunday after finding more than 700 suspected new planets -- including up to 140 similar in size to Earth -- in just six weeks of using a powerful new space observatory.

Senh: I almost thought this had something to do with Twitter.

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