The planet on which we live — the third planet from the sun. It consists of an inner core made of iron and nickel, an outer core of liquid metal, a mantle, and, on the outside, a crust.
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Will Earth drift outside of the Goldilocks zone in the next half-billion years?
According to American actor Terrence Howard in his address at the Oxford Union Society:
Our planet is moving away from our sun at six inches a year [...] 15 centimeters a year our planet is pushing away from the sun. In less then half a billion…

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