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The oldest rocks on Earth
The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of ...
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An Earth-Rocking Cosmic Explosion Turns 20
Twenty years ago today a magnetar’s epic tantrum made our planet ring like a bell from tens of thousands of light-years away ...
How they celebrate the holidays 250 miles above Earth
The astronauts — including two whose return is long overdue — held a zero-gravity cookie-decorating contest and built a ...
Inside the world's first nuclear reactor that will power Earth using the same energy as the Sun
Euronews Next went behind the scenes at the world’s largest nuclear fusion device attempting to harness the same reaction ...
No CGI in new 'Alien: Earth' xenomorph teaser
Rebecca and Kevin Joelson, the producers behind the show's teaser trailer, recently shared images and video of how the clip ...
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Climate change is the worst. Here's just how bad it got this year.
The big news in Earth science this year was all about climate change, with extreme weather, flooding and drought attributed ...
What is the Kessler Syndrome? How space junk has become an orbital threat
All of this adds up to the likelihood, the ESA warns, that a theoretical scenario known as the Kessler Syndrome could become ...
New Study Charts 2 Billion Years Of Life’s Diversity
A high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of fossils spanning 2 billion years shows how a series of super ice ages ...
NASA warns! Two airplane-sized asteroids to pass close to Earth tomorrow – here’s what you need to know
NASA confirms no collision risk as asteroids 2024 YC1 and 2024 YQ2 approach Earth on December 28, 2024, at 639,000 miles ...
A Century of Human Detritus, Visualized
Humans — some eight billion people weighing 120 million tons — account for only about one one-thousandth of Earth’s current biomass, according to Dr. Bar-On’s study. Termites and their mounds account ...
With space junk clouding Earth’s orbit, are we barreling toward ‘Kessler Syndrome’?
The concept known as “Kessler Syndrome” was proposed nearly five decades ago. Experts weigh in on whether the space-based disaster scenario is already unfolding.