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Writing in a paper published Wednesday in Nature, scientists describe what they call the velocity of climate change, or more specifically, the speed of Earth's shifting climatic zones. As global temperature rises over the next century, the scientists argue, Earth's habitable climatic zones will start moving too, generally away from the Equator and toward the poles. That means many species of plants and animals will also have to move in order to survive. Whether or not they do will depend on several factors, but two of the most important are how fast a species can adjust its habitat...
GJ1214b was discovered when the team detected a one percent faintness when the super-Earth eclipsed its host star during its orbit...
Harvard researchers have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth with telescopes no larger than those used by amateur stargazers...
...team believes that the planet—named GJ1214b after the red dwarf star it orbits and 6.5 times the Earth's size—is primarily composed of water and ice but, at roughly 400 degrees Fahrenheit, is too hot to sustain life...
Harvard astronomy professor David Charbonneau and his colleagues discovered the super-Earth using the MEarth (pronounced "mirth") Project, an array of eight robotic telescopes that have monitored 2,000 red dwarf stars since...