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The sun may have heated asteroids to produce a huge amount of water gas. ESA/Hubble Copyright: NASA, ESA, MA GARLICK (Space-Art.co.uk), Warlic University, Cambridge University. According…
The impacts of climate change are widespread, ranging from biodiversity loss to extreme weather events, rising sea levels, wildfires, and mass human migrations. Each year reveals…
A small asteroid hurtled towards Earth on Tuesday night before burning up over Russia's far northeast, creating a natural light show for residents of the Earth's…
Webcam images show asteroid burning up in the atmosphere over SiberiaLensk LR/YouTube Astronomers discovered the asteroid, about 70 centimeters in diameter, hours before it exploded harmlessly…
We now know that dinosaurs were giant reptiles that dominated the Earth, but scientists have long wondered why it took them 30 million years to reach…
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of the trogonophid Amphisbaenian (worm lizard) from fossil specimens discovered in Tunisia. rebuilding the life of Terrastiodontosaurus Marcelo…
Bacteria on a sample of asteroid Ryugu observed using an electron microscopeMatthew J. Genge et al. 2024 Rocks brought back to Earth from the asteroid Ryugu…
Artist's depiction of a star system showing the host star, transiting planets, and misaligned protoplanetary disksNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology/R. Hart, K. Miller (California Institute of Technology/IPAC)…
Uranus is more normal than we thoughtNASA/Space Telescope Science Institute Uranus’ strange magnetic field may be much less strange than astronomers first thought, and it could…
Bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice were used to estimate past temperaturesaldiami/Andreas Alexander/Alamy Humankind has already caused around 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming since the start of…
Hidden somewhere in the dark of space, there is a giant asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If we don’t spot it and somehow stop…
Poisonous spiders are known as some of the deadliest and most dangerous creatures in the world. They are the stuff of nightmares and horror movies, famous…
Approximately 47,000 trees in Utah’s Fish Lake National Forest are actually a single ancient creature named Pando George Rose/Getty Images The world’s largest tree has been…
Unlike asteroids, which can hit the Earth’s surface and cause havoc, meteorites burst into flames when they get close to Earth. James Blake/Falklands Marine Heritage Trust…
In the ancient history of the Earth, dinosaurs reigned supreme for over 53 million years. These incredible creatures dominated the planet, growing in size and diversity…
This meteorite impacted Earth during its early stages, a planet mostly covered in water with only a few land masses visible above the ocean. Drabon mentioned…
astronomer using Zwicky Temporary Facility (ZTF) investigated. Taurus resonance groupa large interplanetary system containing Comet 2P/Encke, several meteor showers, and possibly numerous near-Earth asteroids. This image…
According to some researchers, the moon may have been captured during a close encounter between young Earth and the Earth binary (a system consisting of the…
Artist’s impression of Barnard’s b, a planet orbiting around Barnard’s starESO/M.Kornmesser Barnard’s star, one of the Sun’s closest neighbors, appears to have at least one planet…
An exoplanet with at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard's Star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days. Artist's impression…
Asteroid 2024 RW1 appears over the PhilippinesAlan Madeler/Facebook The sudden discovery of asteroid 2024 RW1 this week, just hours before it harmlessly collided with Earth, may…
NASA announced on Wednesday that the troubled Boeing spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station on Friday and attempt to return to Earth without any…
Predicted trajectory of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the Philippines Catalina Sky Survey/ESA The asteroid struck Earth and burned up in the atmosphere east of the Philippines. Astronomers…
Predicted trajectory of asteroid CAQTDL2 over the Philippines Catalina Sky Survey/ESA Astronomers have discovered that an asteroid is on its way to collide with Earth at…
NASA has announced that it will proceed with undocking the unmanned Boeing Starliner spacecraft by Sept. 6 after completing its review.Last week, NASA revealed that the…
Astrophysicists from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration have conducted test observations that achieve the highest resolution ever obtained from Earth’s surface by detecting light emanating…
Seoul’s ginkgo trees help absorb carbon dioxide emitted by traffic Khanh Nha Trang/Alamy Becoming Earth Felice Jabr (Picador (UK)) Penguin Random House (USA) The first ginkgo…
The oldest known fragment on Earth? A 4.4 billion year old zircon John Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Until recently, many people discounted the idea of life…
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. An atom consists of a dense nucleus containing positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. A cloud of negatively…
JUICE spacecraft may be visible from Southeast Asia during unprecedented operationEuropean Space Agency The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will land on Earth in what the…
Australian Red-necked Cockatoo feeding in a field in the Northern TerritoryRoland Seitre/naturepl.com Living on EarthPeter Godfrey Smith (William Collins (UK, on ​​sale now) Farrar, Strauss &…
This new image is High resolution stereo camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft Calaris ChaosIt is the collapsed and dried-up remains of a vast…
dpa Picture Alliance Archive/Alamy The International Space Station (ISS) is both the most expensive object ever built and one of the most collaborative endeavors in the…
British Columbia, Canada, during the 2023 wildfire season David J. Mitchell/Shutterstock Extreme heat, drought and wildfires have caused forests and other land ecosystems to emit almost…
summaryAccording to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, Sunday was the hottest day on record. The global average temperature reached 17.09 degrees Celsius (62.76 degrees…
Oxford PV solar module with layers of perovskite and silicon Oxford PV The most efficient solar cells to date can convert nearly half of the sunlight…
Researchers from the Scottish Institute for Marine Science have discovered that the deep ocean floor of the Pacific Ocean, covered with polymetallic nodules, produces so-called “dark…
We live in the age of black hole photography. In 2019, the first photograph of a black hole was published. Naturally, it was difficult to capture.…
Dead Planets Society is a podcast that explores wild ideas about manipulating the universe and tests them against the laws of physics, from splitting the moon…
Life is abundant on Earth, from pigeons in the park to invisible microorganisms covering every surface. However, when Earth first formed 4.5 billion years ago, it…