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Earth-like planets anywhere will, by necessity, develop both oxygen and primitive life.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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He traveled to the Australian outback to see how astronomers hunt for Earth-like planets orbiting other stars.
Is There Anybody Out There? Carl Zimmer 2011
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Dubbed Gliese 581g, the planet is thought to be Earth-like because it is orbiting about its sun in the so-called "Goldilocks Zone," where the temperature would permit liquid water on its surface.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Christianity and Extraterrestrial Life: Are the Gliesans Going to Hell? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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Earth-like planets anywhere will, by necessity, develop both oxygen and primitive life.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Friedemann Freund - The Future of Forecasting Earthquakes SETI Institute 2011
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The discovery of an Earth-like planet outside our solar system has rejuvenated the conversation about life elsewhere in the universe.
Karl Giberson, Ph.D: Christianity and Extraterrestrial Life: Are the Gliesans Going to Hell? Ph.D Karl Giberson 2010
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In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in on two places that look awfully familiar to home.
Odin's Day avivasedai 2009
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The presence of Earth-like exoplanets in what is called the "habitable zone" has been predicted for some time, but actually identifying and measuring one was referred to Wednesday as the beginning of a new era in the search for life beyond Earth.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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The presence of Earth-like exoplanets in what is called the "habitable zone" has been predicted for some time, but actually identifying and measuring one was referred to Wednesday as the beginning of a new era in the search for life beyond Earth.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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We are back on New World, an Earth-like planet colonized in parts by humans but still populated elsewhere by intelligent, chalky-skinned, telepathic creatures known as Spackle.
Tales for Teens (and Others) Meghan Cox Gurdon 2010
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In the far-distant future, anywhere from 200 to 1,000 years from today, Mars could be much more Earth-like than today.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010
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