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For the past three years, Kepler has been looking at 150,000 stars, searching for planetary transits.
Life on Earth has dramatically changed the chemistry of the planet. Astronomers will measure light that bounces off distant planets to look for similar clues that they host life.
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Earth contains enormous buried chunks of an alien world, research suggests Apr 03, 2021, 10:23 AM
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New research suggests these blobs are remnants of a planet that hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago.
The collision of Earth and this ancient planet, called Theia, may have helped create the moon.
If you were to peer deep under Earth s crust, you d spot two giant blobs of rock cupping the planet s core like a pair of hands.
The source of these mysterious, continent-sized formations - one under the Pacific Ocean, the other under Africa -has baffled geologists for four decades. Some experts have suggested that the massive rocks are fragments of tectonic plates that got trapped under their counterparts.