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How an old law might bring new life to the search for habitable exoplanets

18 March 2015 Kerry Hebden

Researchers at the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have calculated that billions of stars in the Milky Way will have between one and three planets in the habitable zone conducive to liquid water, by using a law proposed in 1766 that helped to discover Uranus.

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  • Researchers spot whirlwind marking possible exoplanet in the making

    21 January 2021
  • NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ no longer digging the red planet

    14 January 2021
  • Most distant quasar – and youngest supermassive black hole – identified

    13 January 2021
  • Researchers find strong hints of background ‘sea’ of gravity waves

    12 January 2021
  • Review board recommends extending Juno and Insight missions

    8 January 2021
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