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11 hours ago · Middle: This artist’s concept compares Earth with different possible Gliese 12 b interpretations, from one with no atmosphere to one with a thick Venus-like one. Follow-up observations with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope could help determine just how much atmosphere the planet retains as well as its composition.
1 day ago · The host star, called Gliese 12, is a cool red dwarf located almost 40 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. The star is only about 27% of the Sun’s size, with about 60% of the Sun’s surface temperature. The new world, named Gliese 12 b, orbits every 12.8 days and is Earth’s size or slightly smaller — comparable to Venus.
11 hours ago · Pluto may not be a real planet, but it has a real big ocean. By Eric Ralls. Earth.com staff writer. Astronomers are diving deeper into the mysteries of Pluto, revealing compelling evidence of a vast liquid water ocean hidden beneath the dwarf planet’s icy surface. The findings, published in the journal Icarus, provide new insights into the ...
11 hours ago · Scientists said in the study that the planet is “the nearest, transiting temperate, Earth-sized planet found to date.” The planet is only a little smaller than Earth, but is 40 light years away.
11 hours ago · A world that bears more than a passing similarity to Earth has just been discovered orbiting a star just 40 light-years from the Solar System. This exoplanet has a very similar radius to our home planet, suggesting a similar rocky composition. Tantalizingly, Gliese-12b, as the exoplanet is named, is at a distance from its host star that could ...
1 hour ago · A Greek Jew who snagged one of the last boats to New York in 1939, a whisker ahead of the Nazi occupation, Wilson wasted no time transforming her hot-dog stand into a thriving pornography empire ...
11 hours ago · Launched with a skeleton team in February 2020, the Bezos Earth Fund aims to give away US$10bn (£7.9bn) of the Amazon founder’s $200bn personal fortune to combat the climate crisis and biodiversity loss by the end of the decade. So far, it has issued more than 230 grants worth $2bn, funding initiatives from AI environmental solutions to ...
