Avatartymen whitwAlien Earths: why life on other worlds would be far weirder than usverified_publisherThe Verge - Sam RoudmanAnd you thought your planet was strange Last month, the American Astronomical Society's 223rd meeting featured the announcement of a few breakthroughs: Using the Kepler space observatory, researchers had discovered a planet roughly the mass of Earth orbiting a star beyond our solar system, and with …