Our Solar System, Earth May Be Rarities
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Our solar system may be unique -- or at least very unusual -- despite the discovery of at least 120 other systems with planets, astronomers said Wednesday.
All the other solar systems that have been found have big, gassy planets circling too close to their stars to allow them to be anything like our system, the British and U.S. researchers said. If the discovered systems prove representative of all systems, Earth-like planets are very rare, they wrote in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
