When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...
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Can Earth survive an asteroid?
Neil deGrasse Tyson examines Earth's vulnerability to asteroid impacts, exploring detection, prevention strategies, and the ...
Researchers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky ...
TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...
Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...
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Planet-Eating Stars Are Giving Us a Glimpse of Earth’s Ultimate Fate
Our Sun is about halfway through its life, which means Earth is as well. After a star exhausts its hydrogen nuclear fuel, its ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again spotted a distant exoplanet that I have exactly zero interest in ...
The Earth's tail is known as the "magnetotail". Though it is generally a permanent feature, it is at the whims of the solar ...
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What science suggests if other planets replaced Earth’s moon
Mark Kelly says this 'exciting' scientific find raises questions of life beyond Earth ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
Reporting from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Ministerial Council for 2025, held in Bremen last week, IFLScience reveals ...
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