In the early 1990s, eight people agreed to vanish from the world and live for two years inside a sealed glass habitat in the ...

For all our technological progress, humanity remains confined to a single planet. But that may not always be the case. Over the past few decades, astronomers have discovered thousands of exoplanets, ...

The fault that ruptured in the March quake was simple and mature, which allowed the quake's energy to shoot right to the surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying itself, melting large portions of our planet’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later pulled ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system. The eruption was similar in some ways to those unleashed by our sun, such as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(NewsNation) — Earth has a new travel buddy in space. According to NASA, a small asteroid named 2025 PN7 is what scientists are calling a “quasi-moon,” which is considered a rare companion that ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time 3 ...

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Planet’s Owl satellites will be larger and more capable than the SuperDove satellites that currently handle daily imaging of Earth. Credit: Planet AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Planet has announced a new ...