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Scientists haven't found a rocky exoplanet with air. But now they have a plan.

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A new large-scale program will budget about 500 hours for observing rocky exoplanets orbiting small red stars.

Red dwarf stars' relatively cooler temperatures present an opportunity for worlds to be closer without getting fried.

No one knows for sure whether their worlds can have atmospheres, or what chemicals could be in their air.

Webb 's Survey of Rocky Worlds will allow scientists to survey 10 to 20 rocky worlds.

The Webb campaign will advance humans' understanding of rocky worlds by a decade .

Most of the targets will be less than twice the size of Earth .

A breakthrough could have a huge impact on how Webb and other flagship observatories are used going forward.