Trappist will join two other planet-hunting instruments at La Silla: known as Harps and Coralie.
Plate tectonics, the formation of faults and the moving of the continental crust over a molten interior, is a characteristic unique to Earth and it meant that minerals evolved far beyond those on any other planet in the Solar System.
Rumors circulated that the agency was about to announce that life had been discovered somewhere other than planet Earth.
Although conclusive evidence for life on Mars (or on any other foreign planet) has yet to turn up, humans are an impatient species.
Opportunity is exploring in an area called Meridiani Planum on the other side of planet.
This futuristic vision of what appears to be a colony for a planet other than ours in colored pencil, ink and sepia wash is done in the calligraphic hand of a fastidious draftsman.
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But a select few will see the writing on the wall and transform themselves from within, so they can stay relevant in a new world where education is a freely traded commodity subject to the same pricing, supply and demand constraints as every other commodity on planet earth.
"Many scientists and mathematicians have looked... at the question of whether life likely exists beyond Earth, and have come to the conclusion that the odds are pretty high that somewhere among the trillions and trillions of stars in the Universe there is a planet other than ours that is home to life, " he wrote.
The list of top discoveries made with Hubble reads like the hit parade of astronomy: a mysterious new "dark energy" causing the accelerating expansion of the universe, distances to other galaxies, the supermassive black holes at their centers, the age of the universe, planet formation around other stars, searches for signs of extraterrestrial life -- and the list goes on.
Good thing there are a few other primates on the planet to set us straight.
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No other drink on the planet simultaneously makes a connection to welcome, festivity, extravagance, tradition and loosened inhibition.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, China completed its first underwater railway tunnel on Saturday.
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At the other end of the planet, documentarians recently captured the largest icefall ever recorded on film.
In five years it has suffered only eight minutes of downtime, better than almost any other system on the planet.
The person you are dealing with may be in your neighbourhood or may be on the other side of the planet.
On the other side of the planet, Opportunity was having more success.
He's all the way on the other side of the planet, but Santa is fast, and he can get to any house in seconds.
Mars is the only other earth-like planet in the known universe.
Indeed, the way things are going, by November 2012, we may see the Mideast - and perhaps other parts of the planet - plunged into a cataclysmic war.
With the continuous social, climate and other changes of our planet, UNESCO invests in timeless values: education, scientific research and cultural diversity, thus laying the foundations for peaceful coexistence and sustainable development.
These new songs ride on what "Tumbling Dice" and all the other classics did, an eternal kind of pulse, a group cohesion and swing that no other rockers on the planet can touch.
Each day, the scientific community collects millions of individual Earth observations, allowing us to examine, monitor, and model atmospheric composition, seismic activity, ecosystem health, weather patterns, and hundreds of other characteristics of our planet.
It's quite a draw for B-school applicants in Asia, attracting more of them (as measured by the number that have sent in their admission test scores) than any other school on the planet outside Harvard.
As a person who is almost always on the road and separated (often on the other side of the planet) from my closest friends and family, my Facebook news feed is like the local newspaper in my hometown.
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Likewise, the team says that Henry, who won a World Cup with France and scored 175 goals for Arsenal in the English Premier League, has a world-class pedigree that has helped sell tickets, attract new players and bring both the club and the league a level of credibility that few other players on the planet could provide.
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