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Astronomers studying the agency’s retired Kepler space telescope discovered a new system of seven “scorching” planets orbiting a distant star that is bigger and hotter than the sun, NASA said Thursday. NASA described the newly-found planets as “sweltering” and “bathed” in radiant heat emitted by the host star that was described as “sun-like.” That star
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Scientists proposed a novel idea on Wednesday that could solve two of the world’s mysteries at once — one that passes over our heads every night, and one that sits far below our feet. The first mystery has puzzled everyone from scientists to inquisitive children for millennia: where did the moon come from? The leading
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Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released a spooky new image that the space agency says shows the “bones” of a “ghostly cosmic hand.” The hand is actually the remnants of a collapsed giant star, which ran out of nuclear fuel around 1,500 years ago, NASA said in a news release, and is about
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For the love of bats – CBS News Watch CBS News Texas millionaire David Bamberger was so enamored with the bats he saw at the renowned Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio, and was so concerned about threats to the flying mammals’ natural habitat, that in the late 1990s he built the world’s largest manmade
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Deep in the heart of Texas, deep inside a cave, millions and millions of Mexican free-tailed bats roost together. One square foot of the cave’s ceiling can contain more than 500 of them. When it comes to bat colonies, it turns out everything really IS bigger in Texas. Bracken Cave Preserve, located just outside San
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Head of NASA concerned China could try to claim lunar territory on moon’s south pole – CBS News Watch CBS News China’s rapidly growing space program has its sights set on the moon just as the U.S. is planning a return. CBS News’ Mark Strassmann reports the head of NASA is concerned about a new
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Engineers working to prevent flooding on a beach in the United Kingdom made a “dramatic discovery” of dinosaur footprints, government officials announced Monday. The Environment Agency engineers were working on sea defenses on the Yaverland seafront on the Isle of Wight when they made the discovery. The fossils date back about 125 million years. Experts
Read MoreScientists revealed Tuesday that they had discovered a vast, hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers that has been “frozen in time” under the Antarctic ice for millions of years. This landscape, which is bigger than Belgium, has remained untouched for potentially more than 34 million years, but human-driven global warming could
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Eight billion years ago, something happened in a distant galaxy that sent an incredibly powerful blast of radio waves hurtling through the universe. It finally arrived at Earth on June 10 last year and — though it lasted less than a thousandth of a second — a radio telescope in Australia managed to pick up
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A man with a metal detector searching a freshly plowed carrot field in Switzerland found a large ornate jewelry set dating to the Bronze Age — as well as other surprising items including a bear’s tooth, a beaver’s tooth and a fossilized shark’s tooth, local officials said this week. Franz Zahn made the unusual discovery
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