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(SCOOP) M Dwarfs Particularly Promising for Life-hosting Planets [Nature]

A pair of just-released statistical studies of the universe suggest numerous habitable planets exist in our Galaxy, with one study suggesting a life-friendly planet within 20 light years of our Solar System. From my Nature article, Small stars host droves of life-friendly worlds, that broke news of this latter study, which used data from NASA’s Kepler telescope

Credit: Dana Berry/NASA Kepler Mission
Credit: Dana Berry/NASA Kepler Mission

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Moon Origins Topic of Lively and Continuing Debate [Nature]

Although there is wide consensus on the theory that the moon formed through the collision of Earth and another object, the specifics of that theory are still not certain. And two new papers published in Science present two new significantly different takes on those specifics.

Credit: NASA
Credit: NASA

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