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By Dexter T. Manglicmot Eagle News Correspondent (WASHINGTON D.C., USA) – The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that seven earth-like planets were seen orbiting a single star. They described this as a tremendous leap in the study of our universe because this is the first known system with this many planets that have the potential to support life outside our solar system. “Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, we’ve discovered seven earth sized […]
Reuters — Scientists have discovered evidence of ice on the dwarf planet Ceres. Researchers presented the findings at the American Geophysical union meeting in San Francisco on Thursday (December 15). The presence of ice is important because water is an essential ingredient for life. Scientists believe Ceres’ upper surface is rich in hydrogen with higher concentrations at mid-to-high latitudes which is consistent with the theory of the existence of plentiful water. Rather than a solid […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Climate change is making the planet hotter and drier, and has about doubled the area burned by forest fires in the western United States in the past three decades, a study said Monday. Researchers found that since 1984, drier conditions and higher temperatures have caused fires to spread across an additional 16,000 square miles (41,500 square kilometers) — an area about 30 times the size of Los Angeles. This “approximately […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN HONOLULU, United States (AFP) — Global warming is making the oceans sicker than ever before, spreading disease among animals and humans and threatening food security across the planet, a major scientific report said on Monday. The findings, based on peer-reviewed research, were compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries, experts said at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. “We all know that the oceans sustain […]
(Reuters) – For the first time, scientists have found an Earth-sized world orbiting in a life-friendly zone around a distant star. The discovery, announced on Thursday, is the closest scientists have come so far to finding a true Earth twin. The star, known as Kepler-186 and located about 500 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, is smaller and redder than the sun. The star’s outermost planet, designated Kepler-186f, receives about one-third the radiation from […]
