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BBC News
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Plutoid" is the word of the moment for astronomers.
It is the new classification that has been sanctioned for the object that was formerly known as the "ninth planet".
It is nearly two years since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) stripped..
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BBC News
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Research has cast new doubt on the wisdom of using Sun-blocking sulphate particles to cool the planet.
Sulphate injections are one of several "geo-engineering" solutions to climate change being discussed by scientists.
But data published in Science..
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BBC News
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The BBC has scrapped plans for Planet Relief, a TV special on climate change.
The decision comes after executives said it was not the BBC's job to lead opinion on climate change.
Celebrities such as Ricky Gervais were said to be interested in presen..
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BBC News
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Pluto has suffered yet another blow to its status.
Not only has it been demoted from planet to "dwarf planet", research now shows that it cannot even lay claim to being the biggest of these.
A study has confirmed that the dwarf planet Eris - whose d..
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SF Gate
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A rocky planet not much larger than Earth has been detected orbiting a star close to our own neighborhood in the Milky Way, and the European astronomers who found it say it lies within the star's "habitable zone," where life could exist -- possibly in oce..
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Space.com
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Astronomers have detected water in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system for the first time.
The finding, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of Astrophysical Journal, confirms previous theories that say water vapor should be present in t..
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FOX News
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A Mars-orbiting satellite recently spotted seven dark spots near the planet's equator that scientists think could be entrances to underground caves.
The football-field sized holes were observed by Mars Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS)..
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NPR
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Scientists are trying to figure out how to get carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas that's warming the planet — out of the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants before it gets into the atmosphere.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's la..
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BBC News
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Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered...
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Daily Mail
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Striking new images of the Red Planet have raised hopes life could be found on Mars after all...
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BBC News
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Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own.
Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets..
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MSNBC
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander got down its first full day of work in the Red Planet's chilly north polar region on Monday, while the team behind the mission released an unprecedented picture showing the probe's descent as seen from above.
"Speaking as an..
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BBC News
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The wheels continue to turn on Europe's billion-euro project to put a robotic rover on the surface of the Red Planet.
Engineers working towards the flagship ExoMars mission have unveiled a sophisticated new vehicle prototype.
The demonstrator will t..
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BBC News
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An embryonic planet detected in a far off galaxy could be less than 2,000 years old, astronomers say.
The ball of dust and gas, which is in the process of turning into a Jupiter-like giant, was detected around the star HL Tau by a UK team.
Research..
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BBC News
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Britons are being asked to "leave it off" later this month, to show that cutting home energy use can have an impact on climate change.
During E-Day, which begins on 27 February, people will be asked to switch off electrical items not in use.
The Nat..
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BBC News
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The European Space Agency (Esa) has signed an industrial contract to build a probe to send to the planet Mercury.
BepiColombo will launch in 2013 on a seven-billion-km flight to the innermost world, arriving in 2017.
The 350m-euro (�260m) deal wit..
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BBC News
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The first spacecraft to visit Mercury in more than 30 years passes the planet on Monday at a distance of just 200km.
The fly-by is the first of three the Messenger probe will make in the coming years as it slows itself to enter into orbit around the sm..
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BBC News
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Astronomers have discovered a newborn planet in a solar system that is still in the process of forming - the first example of this ever found.
Planets are believed to develop within swirling discs of dust and gas around nascent stars.
So studying ve..
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BBC News
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Observations of the planet Venus might assist efforts to tackle the threat of climate change here on Earth.
Data from a European probe orbiting Venus paints a picture of a planet that may once have been like Earth, but later evolved in a very different..
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BBC News
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Astronomers in the US say they have found a new planet in orbit around a star 41 light years from Earth.
The discovery brings to five the number of planets orbiting the star, 55 Cancri, the most found to date in a single solar system outside our own...
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