Planets without metal cores may be bad for life

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Some planets beyond our solar system might be rocky like Earth, but lack its gooey metallic middle, a new study suggests. Such "coreless" terrestrial planets would not have magnetic fields, which would make them inhospitable to life as we know it.

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