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A group of astronomers may have found Earth’s long-lost cousin, discovering the first-ever “habitable” terrestrial planet with water in its atmosphere, according to new research aided by the Hubble telescope. Known as K2-18 b, the mysterious exoplanet is twice the size of Earth with eight times its mass, but its …

It came, witnesses said, quickly and without warning. One compared it to the “apocalypse”. Sao Paulo – the largest city in the Americas – was plunged into afternoon darkness after vast plumes of smoke from forest fires burning across the continent suddenly swept over the city. Brazilians living in the …