Astronomers discover ultra-dense 'super-Earth' with outer companion offering clues about its formation
An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...
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New Study Shows That Earth Likely Had Rings Similar To Saturn’s For Tens Of Millions Of Years
According to a new study that was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth may have once had rings ...
NISAR: The Powerful New Satellite That Will Track Earth’s Secret Shifts
NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...
Was 'Snowball Earth' a global event? New study delivers best proof yet
Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...
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A giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2 billion years ago. Scientists say it was a ‘fertilizer bomb’ for life
The new findings could change the way scientists understand how Earth and its fledgling life responded to bombardment from space rocks not long after the planet formed. Early in Earth’s history ...
Apophis: a new European space mission could get up close with a large asteroid that’s set to brush by Earth
Apophis is 340 metres wide, about the same as the height of the Empire State Building. If it were to hit Earth, it would ...
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Listen to haunting sounds of Earth's magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago in eerie new animation
A new video shows how Earth's magnetic field weakened and warped before temporarily flipping during a recent "polar reversal event." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...