An artist’s rendering of a planet astronomers have found in Alpha Centauri, a star system that is the Sun’s closest neighbor.Credit...L. Calcada/European Southern Observatory, via Associated Press Bringing the search for another Earth about as close as it will ever get, a team of European astronomers was scheduled to announce on Wednesday that it had found a planet the same mass as Earth’s in Alph
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