Proxima Centauri photographed by Hubble in 2013. It was around this star that the new observed exoplanet is orbiting. – ESA / Hubble & amp;
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Heat the rocket, a potential “second Earth” discovered close to home

C’ is the grail of astronomy. Researchers have discovered an exoplanet well around the nearest star to the Sun, Proxima Centauri, in a zone where liquid water can exist on the surface. The rumor, which ran for two weeks, was confirmed Wednesday by the official publication in the magazine Nature . “The hunt for life can begin,” wrote the lead author, astronomer Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Queen Mary University of London

Earthquake in Italy. The toll rises to 247 dead, the search continues

in a little over twenty-four hours after the deadly earthquake that rocked central Italy, leaving at least 247 dead and hundreds injured, the research continued in the night of Wednesday to Thursday in the hope of finding any survivors trapped in the rubble. The earthquake, of magnitude 6.0 which partially destroyed at least three villages in a mountainous area northeast of Rome, also made 368 wounded, had said in the evening the Italian leader, Matteo Renzi.

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Colombia: A peace agreement with the FARC after 52 years of civil war

This is a historic moment. The Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas said Wednesday in Cuba be able to seal a peace agreement after almost four years of bitter negotiations doomed to end 52 years of civil war. “We have reached a final agreement, full and final on all items on the agenda” of the talks conducted since November 2012 in Havana, according to a document signed by both parties and read by the Cuban diplomat Rodolfo Benitez, whose the country accompanied the negotiations with Norway

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