astronomy

The team aims to find “Earth 2.0”

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Newswise – Are there other Earth-like planets? Is there life outside the planet Earth? In the quest to find planets orbiting stars other than the sun, “Earth 2.0” is the holy grail. Earth 2.0 is a planet similar enough to Earth to enable the existence of life as we know it. It would be the … Read more

Why this universe? Maybe not special – just possible

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Cosmologists have spent For decades you’ve struggled to understand why the universe is so amazing. Not only is it smooth and flat as far as we can see, but it’s also expanding at an ever-increasingly slow pace, when naive calculations suggest that – out of the Big Bang – space should have been gravitationally collapsed … Read more