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Two planets similar to Earth discovered beyond solar system

USA: Three new planets have been discovered 1.2billion miles from Earth.

A rocky world about the size of Mars , one of the smallest “exoplanets” found beyond the solar system, orbits the faint red dwarf star Kepler-138 in the southern constellation of Lyra.

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