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Is There a Ninth Planet?

Scientists from the California Institute of Technology may well have discovered a ninth planet in our solar system. Now called Planet Nine, the new spatial body has 10 times the mass of Earth and is near the size of Neptune. Amy Shire Teitel and Trace Dominguez fill in the details in this edition of D News.

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More Signs Of Alien Intelligence

The Kepler Space Telescope’s discovery of what appears to be a megastructure orbiting a distant star has the Internet and science world abuzz. Kepler, whose mission is detecting exoplanets around faraway stars, recently detected a body that was nearly 20 percent larger than anything seen before. Astromers aren’t saying this is proof of intelligent life, but they aren’t ruling out the possibility. Trace Dominguez and Aaron White spell out the ramifications of the discovery in this edition of D News.

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