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The Debris From An Ancient Space Catastrophe Will Pelt Earth This Entire Week

Its Taurid Season!

By Kiona Smith
Science

Cooling The Earth By Blocking Sunlight Is Relatively Simple — But Should We?

The risks of solar geoengineering will be magnified if critics are ignored and researchers are allowed to self-regulate.

By Albert Van Wijngaarden, Adrian Hindes, Chloe Colomer and The Conversation
Space

Earth Plants Can Grow On These Alien Worlds, A New Simulation Study Suggests

Alien sunlight: It's what plants crave!

By Kiona Smith
Science

Six Asteroids — One Considered Potentially Hazardous — Flew Past Earth In Less Than 24 Hours

Asteroids large and small safely fly near Earth all the time.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

A Meteorite the Size of Four Mount Everests Hit Earth — It Left This Strange Aftermath

Simple life found a way to survive.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Earth Is Rapidly Heading Towards Solar Maximum — How Many Auroras Will There Be in 2025?

The peak of Solar Cycle 25 will be in July 2025.

By Amoré Elsje Nel and The Conversation
Science

What Is The Origin Of Life On Earth? Rain’s Crucial Role Offers A Big Hint

Billions of years of evolution might have had a little help from a shower.

By Aman Agrawal and The Conversation
Space

Nearly All Meteorites That Smash Into Earth Came From These 3 Ancient Collisions

A team of astronomers recently traced most of the rocky meteorites found on Earth to three familes of asteroids, formed during dramatic collisions in the asteroid belt over the last few million years.

By Kiona Smith
Science

A Coronal Mass Ejection Just Slammed Into Earth’s Magnetosphere — Here’s Where You’ll See the Auroras

Here we go again!

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Gaming

14 Years Later, This Gaming Hotspot Is the Happiest Place on Earth

Galloping Ghost has more than 1,000 machines — and unlimited lives.

By Mo Mozuch
Space

Powerful X-Rays Could Save Earth From An Asteroid Collision, A Bizarre New Simulation Suggests

Newton's Second Law to the rescue.

By Kiona Smith
Science

Volcano Were Blamed for the Greatest of Earth’s ‘Big Five’ Mass Extinctions — Scientists Might Have Been Wrong

Scientists have generally blamed the mass extinction on greenhouse gases released from a vast network of volcanoes.

By Alex Farnsworth, David Bond, Paul Wignall and The Conversation
Science

Earth Is Just Days Away From Gaining A “Mini-Moon” — Meet Asteroid 2024 PT5

This asteroid is making a 57-day pit stop at Earth.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

Did Earth Really Once Have a Ring Around it? According to One Theory, Yes — And It Left A Mark

21 craters in ancient rock layers are all that's left of Earth's once flashy accesory.

By Kiona Smith
Science

How Boeing’s Starliner Will Make the Epic Journey Back to Earth Without Astronauts Onboard

Starliner may land as early as Saturday.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

Look! The ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Just Performed A Daring Slingshot Around Earth

The high-resolution images aren't out yet, but these navigation camera shots are still pretty impressive.

By Kiona Smith
Science

Mind-Bending: The Hottest Day On Earth On Record Was Broken Twice Last Week

The declarations were made by Copernicus, the European climate change service.

By Andrew King and The Conversation
Movies

'Deadpool & Wolverine' Just Sneakily Confirmed a Weird Piece of MCU Canon

Everything old is new again.

By Dais Johnston
Science

Astronomers Believe A Star Is About To Explode 3000 Light Years From Earth — Here’s How to See It

T CrB is usually much too faint to be seen. But once every 80 years or so, it brightly erupts.

By Tanya Hill, Amanda Karakas and The Conversation
Space

This Hot, Inflated Alien World Is A Preview of Earth’s Final Days

If anyone lives on Earth in 5 billion years, they may get to live just a little bit longer.

By Kiona Smith
Gaming News

A New CEO at Helldivers 2’s Development Studio Will Benefit Everyone on Super Earth

To alleviate being crushed under the weight of success.

By Trone Dowd
Space

The Webb Telescope Found A Lava Planet with a Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere

55 Cancri e is a terrible place, but at least its atmosphere isn't actually vaporized rock.

By Kiona Smith
Science

The Sun Is In the Middle of a ‘Potentially Historic’ Eruption

This weekend could be packed with GPS interruptions and brilliant auroras.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Did Life on Earth Come From Space? A New Study Gives the Theory a Boost

The building blocks of life might form more easily in outer space.

By The Conversation and Christian Schroeder
Science

Look! 3.7 Billion-Year-Old Rocks Reveal The Oldest Evidence of Earth’s Magnetic Field

Our planet was a different place when these rocks formed.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

If One of These Stars Explodes the Radioactive Atoms Could Decimate Life on Earth

Most of these cataclysms are remote, but when they occur closer to home, they can pose a threat to life on Earth.

By Chris Impey and The Conversation
Science

Dune 2's Wildest Scene Has a Real-Life Counterpart on Earth

Take a fishing trip.

By Elana Spivack
Science

This Exoplanet 580 Light-Years From Earth Might Have Seasons Just Like Ours

It all comes down to the planet’s tilt.

By The Conversation and Gongjie Li
Space

ALMA Telescope Detects “At Least 3 Times” More Water Than On Earth In A Nearby Protoplanetary Disk

Planet formation and wet paper towels have something in common.

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Space

This Hellish Version of Earth Has Lava Oceans

Surf's up — if you dare.

By Kiona Smith