Space debris—the thousands of pieces of human-made objects abandoned in Earth's orbit—pose a risk to humans when they fall to ...
Earth just experienced a rare S4 solar radiation storm, the most intense since 2003 — powerful for satellites and astronauts, ...
A rover recently captured sounds of lightning crackling on Mars, over a decade after scientists uncovered the first evidence ...
As the iron and nickel inside our planet shift, so does Earth's magnetic field, meaning the North (and South) Poles are also ...
How does a fjord in the Arctic make the entire earth sound like a tuning-fork? The pulse’s frequency is roughly 1 beat every 92 seconds, and its frequency was observed to be steady and of low ...
When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers discovered that bridgmanite deep in the mantle can store far more water at high ...
An artist's impression of the collision between the early Earth and Theia, which may have formed the moon MPS / Mark A. Garlick Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have ...
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Each second of filmmaker Daniel Raven-Ellison's short film represents one percent of the Earth's surface. Only eight seconds show intact forest. A wetland in the U.K., seen from above. The short film ...
While the Earth has gone through some dramatic climate changes in its 4.6-billion-year history, natural processes like silicate weathering can help return things to a comfortable equilibrium. A new ...
A House of Dynamite dramatizes the government response to a missile from unknown origin heading towards a U.S. city within 20 minutes. Director Kathryn Bigelow personally asked Volker Bertelmann to ...
The recently spotted asteroid 2025 PN7 appears to be the source of the rumor mill about Earth's supposed second moon. Earth has several quasi-moons that get their name due to the fact that they ...