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China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.

China Planning to Smash Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test

By Sharon Adarlo

NASA scientists have spotted unusual shapes in the Earth's ionosphere, hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface.

NASA Discovers Strange Spectral Formations High Over the Earth

By Victor Tangermann

The Thwaites or "doomsday" glacier is in even more danger than once believed, says a new study, because warm water reaching its underbelly.

Warm Water Rushing Under “Doomsday Glacier,” Scientists Warn

By Frank Landymore

Blobs left behind from a collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized object may have led to plate tectonics and eventually earthquakes.

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Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Despite being many light-years away, two colliding neutron stars could create a powerful enough explosion to wipe out life on Earth.

Explosion Light-Years Away Could Obliterate Life on Earth, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

In 2019, scientists detected a strange wobble deep below the Earth's surface that repeats every 8.5 years. They just found an explanation.

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Scientists Working to Understand Strange Signal From Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have simulated what would happen if the greenhouse effect snowballed, causing a dramatic rise in the Earth's temperature.

Scientists Simulated Runaway Greenhouse Effect and It’s Horrifying

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers simulated what would happen if a rogue star were to come within 100 astronomical units of the Sun.

Scientists Study What Would Happen If a Rogue Star Crashed Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

Scientists Perform “Health Check” on Planet Earth, Alarmed by What They Find

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a May study, ancient rock samples show that the widely-accepted theory explaining Earth's Avalon explosion might be all wrong.

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Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

There are staggeringly tall mountains inside the Earth that rival Mount Everest. Scientists are puzzling over their origin.

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Gigantic Mountains Inside Earth Mystify Scientists

By Sharon Adarlo

Planet Earth viewed from Space. Planet Earth Maps Courtesy of NASA: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144875/earth-at-night-black-marble-2012-color-maps-v2.

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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Where Earth’s Water Came From

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have discovered a new, innermost layer nestled inside our planet's inner core, a 400-mile solid metallic ball that acts in a strange way.

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Scientists Discover Gigantic Solid Metal Ball Inside the Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

The Flat Earthers have struck again — and this time, they're pondering why cities don't plummet into space when they're on the planet's "bottom."

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Flat Earthers Puzzled by Why People Don’t Fall Off “Bottom” of Globe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have discovered that the Earth's interior is absolutely teeming with water, something scientists have been suspecting for years.

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Scientists Find Evidence of “Ocean” Hundreds of Miles Below Earth’s Surface

By Victor Tangermann

Even though he's not always good at making predictions, Elon Musk keeps predicting the world's population will collapse because of declining birth rates.

Experts Say Elon Musk Is Wrong About That Population Thing He Keeps Saying

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In uniquely ominous news, the Earth is apparently spinning faster than usual. And if that continues, we'll probably have to make some changes to our clocks.

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The Earth Is Spinning so Fast, We Might Have to Turn Back the Clock

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.

Scientists Say the Sun Is Acting Up and Causing Satellites to Fall Back to Earth

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Russian cosmonaut has shared an amazing photo of an ice formation on the windows of the International Space Station that looks a whole lot like the moon.

Check Out This Moon-Shaped Ice Crystal on the Space Station’s Window

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature says a giant blob in a core part of Earth, called mantle plumes, are actually moving.

Two Huge Objects Inside the Earth Are Changing Shape, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna published a study that summarizes all the current knowledge about microplastics and human consumption.

You’re Eating a Staggering Amount of Plastic Per Week, According to a New Study

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Researchers from Arizona State University published a study on two blobs inside the mantle of Earth. Nobody is sure what they're made of.

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Scientists Puzzled by Two Huge Masses Inside the Earth

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA's Curiosity Rover merged six images on Friday to complete a photo of a tiny, microscopic formation on Mars that looks like a flower.

Mars Rover Snaps Image That Looks a Lot Like an Organism, Though of Course It’s Almost Certainly Not

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An asteroid called 2022 AE1 showed potential impact with Earth in July of 2023, but the threat has now been reduced to nearly zero and will not impact.

Good News: Killer Asteroid Not Going to Hit Earth, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A team of scientists have posit the idea “planetary intelligence,” which describes the collective knowledge and cognition of an entire planet.

Astrobiologists Suggest the Earth Itself May Be an Intelligent Entity

By Tony Ho Tran

Physicists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences determined that the Earth's inner core is in a "superionic sate," technically neither a solid or a liquid.

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Scientists Claim Earth’s Core Is a Weird New State of Matter

By Victor Tangermann

Archaeologists launched the solar system's first archeology "dig" studying human culture aboard the International Space Station this week.

Will Archeologists Learn Anything Useful In New Space Station “Dig”?

By Lonnie Lee Hood

According to new research, the core of the Earth is cooling much faster and sooner than we originally anticipated.

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The Earth’s Core Is Cooling Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

A climate scientist believes that since geoengineering the earth to cool down the climate is so affordable, countries will inevitably start doing it.

Climate Scientist Warns That Countries Are Going to Start Geoengineering the Earth

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists may have answered a longstanding question about exactly how Earth's unique water came to be.

Scientists Say the Sun May Have Kinda Sprayed the Earth With Water

By Noor Al-Sibai

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Scientists: Uh, Earth Flipped Over On Its Side 84 Million Years Ago

By Foster Kamer

According to a new study, a team of geologists found that our planet goes through a cycle of severe geological events — almost like clockwork.

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The Earth Suffers a Regular Cycle of Horrific Catastrophes, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

An international team of researchers has dug through hundreds of years worth of data surrounding the Earth's magnetic field and found something unusual.

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A Huge “Magnetic Anomaly” Struck One Geographic Spot, Hundreds of Years Ago

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the Earth's inner core has yet another core hidden inside of it with a different structure of iron.

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Scientists: There’s Something Lurking in the Center of Earth’s Core

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study published in the reputable journal Nature this week, the total mass of human-made materials outweighs all living biomass.

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Global Human-Made Stuff Now Outweighs All Living Biomass

By Victor Tangermann

According to researchers from the University of Queensland, Australia, our planet will be hit with more prolonged "mega-droughts" thanks to cliamte change.

Scientists: Earth Should Brace Itself For Multi-Decade “Mega-Droughts”

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have been tracking a strange "dent" in the Earth's magnetic field as its slowly moving westwards over the southern Atlantic Ocean.

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NASA Is Tracking a “Dent” in the Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Victor Tangermann

A new series of supercomputer-rendered animations shows what would happen to an Earth-like planet with a thin atmosphere if it collided with another object.

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Watch These Brutal Simulations of Apocalyptic Planetary Collisions

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study by an international team of researchers, the Earth's entire atmosphere vibrates much as the same way a ringing bell does.

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Scientists Detect “Ringing” in the Earth’s Atmosphere

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers say they've used cutting-edge imaging techniques to discover huge, "unexpected" structures near the Earth's core

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Scientists Discover “Unexpected” Structures Near Earth’s Core

By Jon Christian

Researchers from the University of New Mexico believe they have found the remains of Theia buried deep beneath the lunar surface in a new paper.

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Fragment of Planet That Hit Earth May Be Buried Inside Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists say they've found compelling new evidence that the ancient Earth was an unbroken expanse of water, without a single continent.

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Scientists Say Ancient Earth Was Completely Covered in Water

By Jon Christian

There is a chance that incoming stars that whip past the Earth could throw it out of orbit and move it away from the Sun, an astrophycisist argues.

Researcher: Passing Star Could Yeet Earth Out of Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.

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Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have developed a neural network that can predict if asteroids are on a collision course with Earth.

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Neural Network Says These 11 Asteroids Could Smash Into Earth

By Victor Tangermann

On opposite side of the Earth's core lie two massive, mysterious blobs of ultrahot ancient rock that have scientists locked in a decades-long disagreement.

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Geologists Baffled By “Massive Anomalies” at Edge of Earth’s Core

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the Earth's core and mantle have been swapping tungsten and hafnium for the last 2.5 billion years.

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The Earth’s Core Is Leaking, Baffling Scientists

By Dan Robitzski

The Earth's oceans are gradually leaking into the interior of the Earth — though nowhere near fast enough to cancel out climate change.

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New Research: The Oceans Are Slowly Leaking Into the Earth

By Jon Christian

If any humans are alive in 5 billion years, they'll see the dying Sun engulf the Earth. Space Engineer Matteo Ceriotti suggests some possible escape plans.

Space Engineer: We Could Move Earth’s Orbit to Escape a Dying Sun

By Dan Robitzski

Data collected by NASA and ESA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory reveals that Earth's gaseous layer extends up to 391,000 miles away from Earth.

New Research: Earth’s Atmosphere Extends Well Beyond the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

Beautiful New Photo Shows the Moon With Earth In the Background

Beautiful New Photo Shows the Moon With Earth In the Background

By Victor Tangermann

Japan Will Soon Conduct The First Test of Elevator Movement in Space

Japan Will Soon Conduct The First Test of Elevator Movement in Space

By Kristin Houser

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

Google Maps Now (Accurately) Shows that Earth is Round

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The Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Overdue for a Switch

By Chelsea Gohd

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We’ve Finally Recorded the Earth’s Mysterious Song

New Report Asserts the Earth’s Population Will Reach 9.8 Billion by 2050

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New Report Asserts the Earth’s Population Will Reach 9.8 Billion by 2050

No, a Huge Asteroid Probably Won’t Wipe out Humanity

No, a Huge Asteroid Probably Won’t Wipe out Humanity

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Scientists Think Our Moon Used to Be Home to a Molten Metal Ocean and Supersonic Winds

Scientists Announce That The Great Barrier Reef is Officially “Terminal”

Scientists Announce That The Great Barrier Reef is Officially “Terminal”

By June Javelosa

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Scientists Want to Search for Life Deep Below the Earth’s Surface

By Christianna Reedy

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The Sun Is Slowly Expanding. How Can We Stop It From Killing Us All?

By Neil C. Bhavsar

Scientists Just Found Fossils Containing the Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth

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Scientists Just Found Fossils Containing the Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth

By Neil C. Bhavsar

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Anti-EPA Advocate Scott Pruitt Confirmed to Lead the Environmental Protection Agency

By Jolene Creighton

The Antarctic Sea Ice Sheet Is the Smallest It’s Ever Been

The Antarctic Sea Ice Sheet Is the Smallest It’s Ever Been