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Two potentially habitable Earth-like worlds orbit a star in our cosmic backyard

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Astronomers have discovered two potentially habitable worlds orbiting a red dwarf star in our cosmic backyard. Extra-solar planets or “exoplanets” are located only 16 light years away and have masses similar to our planet. They are located in the “habitable zone” of their star, GJ 1002, defined as the shell around a star that is …

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Geopolitics goes into orbit with the space ambitions of the United States and China | East Asia Forum

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Author: Saadia M Pekkanen, University of Washington Space stations are the harbinger of a growing bipolarity in international space relations. The United States leads the International Space Station (ISS) and will lead everything after it, but it is no longer considered the undisputed unipolar power in space. China now also has a national space station, …

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