Scientists have discovered more than 4000 exoplanets so far, and to date, the system most like the Earth and Sun are Kepler-160 and its companion KOI-456.04. The system has a star-planet distance that ...
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Kepler-160, a Sun-like star 3,000 light years from Earth, is accompanied by at least a handful of planets, including one world that may look something like home. Roughly twice as large as Earth, but ...