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There are more than 8,000 additional candidate planets awaiting confirmation

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Wow, I think my FR post some years ago about the advances in detection efforts and technology would push the number to 5000 (I'm not looking for that post, btw) was an underestimate.

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The 'rareearthnonsense' keyword, sorted:

• New Exoplanet Discovered, May Have Necessary Conditions For Life [09/07/2022]
• Intelligent Life Really Can't Exist Anywhere Else [07/02/2022]
• Astronomers spy record-breaking eruption on young sunlike star [12/09/2021]
• Habitable Planets With Earth-Like Biospheres May Be Much Rarer Than Thought [06/26/2021]
• No Signs of Aliens in the Closest 1,300 Stars, Hunt Funded by Russian Billionaire Reveals [06/19/2019]
• Rare Jewel: Earth-Like Planets May Be Very Rare [02/21/2019]
• We're probably not going to find anything by "listening" for extraterrestrials [03/17/2018]
• Rare Jewel: Earth-like Planets May Be Very Rare [02/29/2016]
• Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special after All [02/20/2016]
• Astrobiology Top 10: Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life [12/25/2015]
• Are We Alone in the Universe? [11/20/2013]
• Thanks to Plants, We Will Never Find a Planet Like Earth [02/08/2012]
• I learned something interesting about the moon and the earth + climate(vanity) [01/16/2012]
• Who Needs a Moon? [05/28/2011]
• Uncommon Earth - Simulation shows the solar system could only form under rare conditions [08/07/2008]
• Earth's Moon is 'cosmic rarity' [11/21/2007]
• Earth's Moon is Rare Oddball [11/20/2007]
• Are There Aliens Already on Earth? [02/20/2006]
• The End Of The World Has Already Begun (Stick A Fork In It, Game Over) [01/25/2006]
• UW professors: Discovering life on other planets unlikely (Barf!) [11/15/2005]
• Five Out of Five Researchers Agree: Earth's Solar System Special [03/31/2005]
• Solar system may be one of a kind [08/05/2004]
• Are We Alone? (reason to ponder what makes the earth unique) [07/30/2004]
• No Moon, no life on Earth, suggests theory [03/20/2004]
• Authors say Earth's hot birth foretells its death [02/12/2003]
• Odds against Earth-like planets [01/28/2003]
• Nigh? The End Of The World Is Already Here [01/13/2003]
• A Universe Of Life: Maybe Not [01/07/2002]
• Earth-Shattering Theory:Finally, the Details for Forming the Moon Work Out [10/11/2001]