Despite those lowered expectations, the new Planet of the Apes prequel looks like it could be a hit.
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Not that Fomalhaut b, as the new planet is known, seems much more than a speck in the sky.
Astronomers detected the new planet as it crossed the face of the distant "sun", dimming the star's light as it passed in front.
Gould's estimate of a 15, 000-light-year distance to the new planet is an approximation, and he says he will need more data to refine the number.
The new planet around Alpha Centauri B matches Earth only in terms of its mass - making it among the smallest exoplanets we know of.
The technique employed to find the new planet uses the gravitational field of a star like a lens - magnifying the light from a distant background star.
To be fair, they have plenty to worry about, given that the world is about to end consumed by a hungry new planet that was hitherto hidden from our gaze.
The new bridge will give access to and from Woking town centre, Brewery Road car park and the new Living Planet Centre being built for WWF-UK alongside the canal.
The venture will float under a new firm called Planet Blue Company.
The company has done a good deal of the hard and necessary work of turning itself around and transforming itself, like those alien robots in those awful movies, into something that can survive under the new conditions on planet Earth.
Converting an existing car instead of buying a new one is good for the planet, and the old beater will have a new lease on life.
Or scour the planet for new sources using scanners thousands of miles in space.
Combining stakes in Discovery Channel and Animal Planet into new publicly traded company later this year.
Who is to say that human action might not tip the planet into new instability?
We have advanced medicine, expanded agriculture and productivity, and opened new frontiers beyond our planet for peaceful purposes.
The iconic photograph of the blue marble floating in a field of black gave millions a new perspective on the planet.
Once on the planet, new software had to then be installed remotely.
But the new find is a planet just a third the size of that recent record-holder, smaller even than our Solar System's smallest planet, Mercury.
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Well, now another group of astronomers, many of whom are in favor of keeping Pluto a planet, is challenging that new definition, saying it doesn't set clear criteria for what makes a planet.
But a new book, Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, takes a wide-angle view of the dynamic globe.
Recognition was given to the fact that human activity had driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth-system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.
But first, we haven't heard the last about the ignominious vote last month to strip Pluto of its place in our solar system - kicked out of the planetary lineup by a group of astronomers because it doesn't fit the new definition of what a planet is.
The recent Legatum Prosperity Index showed the U.S. remains by far the largest generator of new ideas and companies on the planet.
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Pictures of the icy satellite Enceladus suggest its surface splits and spreads apart - just like the ocean floor on our planet splits to create new crust.
The idea has been that if we put a price on these carbons, then maybe that would be a way that companies would all respond and start inventing new things that would make our planet cleaner.
With VoIP audio and video services, email and the ease of Wi-Fi access worldwide, planet earth is really the new office.
Earth formed in this hotter region, whose dry matter became the building blocks of our planet, according to the new study.
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The five-day event showcases new bands from every corner of the planet.
While IBM reported a lackluster performance from growth economies at 1%, its new initiatives in Business Analytics, Smarter Planet and cloud delivered stronger growth.
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Meanwhile, intellectual figures like Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop Richard Chartres of London both influenced by eastern Orthodox theology have provided new tools for Christian thinking about the planet.
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