Tag: Planet

2700 New Worlds discovered claims NASA

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As many as 2,700 new worlds have been spotted by the high-tech Kepler space telescope since it was launched four years ago, Some 90 per cent of these should be confirmed as true planets orbiting beyond the Sun, according to…
Massive asteroid to shave past Earth

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  An asteroid about half the size of a football field will zoom past Earth on  Feb. 15, closer than the man-made satellites that power GPS, says NASA. “This is a record-setting close approach,” Don Yeomans of NASA’s Near Earth …
Alien planet will be found in 2013

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The first truly Earth-like alien planet is likely to be spotted this year, an epic discovery that would cause humanity to reassess its place in the universe. While astronomers have found a number of exoplanets over the last few years…