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Nasa 'likely to find earth-like planets'

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Nasa is releasing the latest findings from its search for planets in the "Goldilocks Zone" of solar systems where water could exist in its liquid state.

Physicist Dr Arfon Smith, from the Department of Physics at Oxford University, discusses the prospects of finding earth-like planets.


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