A super-Earth orbiting its red-dwarf
NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Over 300 years ago, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that ours was the best of all possible worlds. The word “world” comes from Old English, originally meaning Earth, and later extending to the physical world in …
