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Exoplanets Extraterrestrial life Intelligent Design

At Mind Matters News: Former astronaut names planet he thinks most likely to have life

Chris Hadfield points to Kepler-442b as Earth-like but some researchers defend the possibility of life even on tidally locked planets, in “edge” zones.

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