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An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...
Earth has been spinning faster for the past few years — a trend that could lead the world’s timekeeping institutions to take ...
Scientists break down the reasons why days are getting shorter—and the mystery they're still trying to solve about Earth's core.
The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
By Felix Richter of Statistia July 24 marks this year's Earth Overshoot Day, the day that humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds the resources Earth can regenerate within that year, ...
These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...
Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...
Soviet spacecraft plunging back to Earth 53 years after launching Just weeks ago, scientists warned that a "city killer" asteroid had a small chance of hitting Earth. While that prediction was ...
More information: G Robert Brakenridge, Late Quaternary supernovae in Earth history, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf554 ...
In fact, because the Earth is bigger, which means our gravitational attraction is higher, more asteroids and comets would have hit the Earth over the past 4.5 billion years than the moon.