Subterranean ‘supercontinents’ reveal intriguing new clues to what’s happening beneath Earth’s surface
Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...
A newly discovered asteroid has a slim chance of hitting Earth in 2032
An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to learn more about its size and trajectory.
The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
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Earth only has six continents, not seven, according to a recent study
Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.
Agencies plan for near-Earth asteroid’s close encounter in 2032
Astronomers confirmed the object as a near-Earth asteroid, and catalogued it as 2024 YR4. But additional calculations soon ...
Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth
Researchers say there’s a 1.3 percent chance that the space rock 2024 YR4 could strike our planet — but not until December ...
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Super-Earth's Long Orbit Makes It Only Occasionally Habitable
The exoplanet HD 20794d swoops in and out of its habitable zone every few hundred days, making for an extreme climate.
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak
A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why.
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Earth's elusive 'ignorosphere' could shed new light on auroras
The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...
Earth’s Magnetic Pole Has Officially Moved—Again
In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...