How Climate Change is Rapidly Drying Up the World’s Rivers
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As climate change intensifies, one of the most alarming consequences is the rapid depletion of the world’s rivers. In fact,…
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Scientists Discover Ancient Microbes in a 2-Billion-Year-Old Rock—Could They Unlock Clues About Life on Mars?
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Pockets of microbes have been found living within a sealed fracture in a 2-billion-year-old rock. The rock was excavated from…
Mount Everest Keeps Growing as Rivers Shape Its Incredible Ascent
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Mount Everest, Earth’s highest mountain, is continuing to rise, and recent research has uncovered a fascinating reason behind this growth….
NASA’s JUICE Probe Reveals the Most Detailed Look at Earth’s Radiation Belt While on its Way to Jupiter
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NASA has unveiled the clearest images ever of Earth’s radiation belt, thanks to a spacecraft that wasn’t even primarily designed…
Why Planets Aren’t Always Perfect Spheres
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I’ve found myself, more times than I can count, debating—sometimes willingly, sometimes not—with people who believe that the Earth isn’t…
Scientists Have Found Something Massive Found Beneath the Pacific Ocean
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Geologists have made a remarkable discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean—a hidden subduction zone that offers a rare glimpse into Earth’s…
COVID Lockdowns Unexpectedly Cooled Down the Moon’s Temperature
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When the world came to a standstill during the COVID-19 pandemic, the consequences extended far beyond Earth. Surprisingly, the Moon…
Nuking Asteroids: Could This Be Earth’s Last Line of Defense?
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In an era of space exploration and planetary defense, scientists are constantly exploring ways to protect Earth from cosmic threats….
Is the Moon an Alien Wanderer? New Study Suggests It May Have Been Captured from Space
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For decades, the prevailing theory has been that the moon was born from the aftermath of a massive collision between…
Astronomers Have Found an Earth-Like Planet Orbiting a Dead Sun
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As we peer into the cosmos, the discovery of an Earth-like planet orbiting a dead star 4,000 light years away…
Antarctica’s Ice-Free Past: When Did It Last Happen?
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Today, we know Antarctica as a land buried beneath vast sheets of ice, one of the most extreme environments on…
Mysterious Structure Discovered Deep Within Earth’s Core
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Approximately 2,890 kilometers beneath the Earth’s surface lies a vast sphere of liquid metal known as the planet’s core. Researchers,…
Is Earth Inside a Black Hole?
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Looking beyond the billions of stars that make up the Milky Way, could our solar system (and specifically Earth) be…
The time it rained for about 2 million years
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Did you know there was a period in Earth’s history when it rained for 2 million years? A previously overlooked…
5 Terrifying Predictions by Professor Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking is my favorite person of all time, mainly because he was a survivor. He had no reason to…
Massive 4 billion-year-old Piece of Ancient Earth Found
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Scientists at Curtin University have found evidence of an almost four billion-year-old piece of the Earth’s crust under the South-West…
Microbes That Don’t Breathe Found Inside the Earth
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Of all the planets in the solar system, Mars and Venus are similar to Earth. Mars has been explored amply…
As You Read This, Earth Is Traveling Through the Remnants of Dead Stars
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The more we explore the universe, the more we realize what a strange and amazing place space really is. A…
10 Strange Places On Earth That Scientists have Struggled To Understand
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Our planet is so far the most unique in the universe since it’s the only one that harbors—apparently intelligent —life….
Younger Dryas Caused by Intense Volcanic Activity and Not Massive Meteor Impacts 13,000 Years Ago
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Researchers have found that around 13,000 years ago, unprecedented volcanic activity caused the climate on Earth to cool down drastically,…
Scientists Find Earth’s Atmosphere Rings Like a Bell
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A group of researchers from the University of Hawaii and the University of Kyoto have discovered that our planet’s atmosphere…
Here’s How a Massive Space Balloon Could Take Tourists into Space
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A recent project aims to combine space and tourism faster than ever. Space Perspective wants to send people into space…