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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...
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An asteroid hit Earth just hours after being detected. It was the 3rd 'imminent impactor' of 2024
A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...
NASA Monitors As Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaches Earth Today
The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.
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Could a supernova ever destroy Earth?
To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...
Sunspots and solar flares, created by the sun's magnetism, can affect the Earth's surface
Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...
You probably haven’t heard of Meanwhile on Earth. It’s only 2024’s best sci-fi movie
It makes sense the genre is the go-to place for all kinds of stories as our reality slowly resembles something you’d see in a ...
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'Snowball Earth:' Entire planet was likely covered in ice more than 600 million years ago
This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...
Extended EMIT mission will explore diverse Earth science questions
Observing our planet from the International Space Station since July 2022, NASA's EMIT (Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source ...
What did the snowball Earth look like?
We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...
Earth's projected warming hasn't improved for 3 years. UN climate talks are still pushing
For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to ...
Living microbes discovered in Earth's driest desert with new separation technique
The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...