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NASA Discovers Cousin to Earth — Kepler 452b

NASA — NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the “habitable zone” around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another “Earth.” The newly discovered Kepler-452b is the smallest planet to date discovered orbiting […]

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Past Pluto

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned images of Pluto from over three billion miles away. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto, about 7,750 miles above the surface. “My dad would be thrilled with New Horizons,” said Clyde Tombaugh’s daughter Annette Tombaugh, of Las Cruces, New Mexico. […]

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Planet Kepler in Habitable Zone

EARTH — NASA has discovered the first habitable planet: Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets […]

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Global Warming Proof

by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Ocean measurements taken more than 135 years ago during the scientific expedition of HMS Challenger have provided further confirmation of human-produced global warming over the past century. The researchers also found the thermal expansion of sea water caused by this global warming contributed to around 40 per […]

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