E-Cat (cold fusion sigh..)
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Unfortunately, media speculation about 'Earth-like' planets tends to be the product of the over-inflated imaginings of eager press-releasing scientists and non-fact-checking journos.
ALL we know about extra-solar planets is *roughly* their size and *roughly* their orbital period around their parent star, from which we can hopefully speculate onwards.
You'll note that in the second paragraph of that Beeb thing it says 'models suggest a temperature of..'. Which applies to any chemical constituencies.
We're abat least 15-20 years off from being able to directly measure the chemistry of extra-solar planets (with the next generation of telescopes, some of which *might* be able to spectroscopically analyze atmosphere of far-flung worlds) - 'til then, everything is imagination and good wishings.