LOS ANGELES — Earth's Milky Way is home to at least 17 billion planets that are similar in size to Earth, a new estimate suggests. That's more than two Earth-size planets for every person on the globe.
Study: Billions of Earth-size planets in Milky Way
Monday, January 7, 2013 | 7:07 p.m. CST
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