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The Milky Way has billions of planets close to Earth
The Milky Way contains at least 46 billion planets of the same mass as Earth. That incredible amount makes the ability to find life on other planets much bigger.
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Articles about Planet Earth
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A meteor is about to fly near the earth
In the middle of the next month a meteorite will fly 6.4 million km away from the globe, a distance close enough for it to be grouped
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Super-planetary discovery
Astronomers have discovered a new planet very similar to our Earth but much larger and can be covered by water more than half.
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New technology detects water on Earth-like planets
Since the early 1990s, astronomers have found more than 300 planets orbiting sun-like stars, nearly all of which are giants like Jupiter.
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Discovered two planets that closely resemble the earth
In the process of searching for planet-like planets, European astronomers discovered two giant planets that have many similarities to the homes of humanity.
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The small planet has an Earth-like crust
Two newly discovered meteors can give new insights into the formation and evolution of these small planets.
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The strange object disturbs the classification of extraterrestrial planets
The European COROT spacecraft has detected an object the size of a planet that orbits its star with close proximity.
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Discover the missing link of comet origin
An international team of scientists has found a strange object whose reverse and tilting trajectory may shed light on the origin of the comet.
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Amazing earth images viewed from satellites
GeoEye commercial satellite company has just released a 2011 calendar set of impressive photos of places on our planet ...
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The videos remind you how beautiful nature is
Joining hands to protect it before it's too late, we won't want to leave our descendants a barren barren Earth.
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Should Mars be an independent planet or Earth's colony?
Will Mars be an independent planet or Earth colony? Cosmic biologist Jacob Haqq-Misra said that they should be developed to prevent the prospect of war with the Earth, a…