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Researchers at the University of Washington’s Virtual Planetary Laboratoryhave devised a new habitability index for judging how suitable alien planets might be for life, and the top prospects on their list are an Earthlike world called Kepler-442b and a yet-to-be confirmed planet known as KOI …
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