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Earth exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars, identifying specific candidates that may have retained detectable atmospheres.

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Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new brown dwarf about 60 times more massive than Jupiter. The newfound substellar object, ...

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