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New telescope cuts through space noise in hunt for distant Earth-like worlds


Across the billions of galaxies and stars in the universe, only one place is known to host life – Earth. Yet the hope of finding other living worlds drives scientists to pursue ever-smarter methods in their search.Despite cataloguing roughly 6 000 exoplanets, a replica of Earth – a planet similar in size that orbits a star like our Sun in a similar position to us – has yet to be identified. This is not for lack of effort. Rather, it reflects the challenges involved.

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