Life might thrive on the surface of Earth for an extra billion years
The sun is midway through its life of fusion. It's about 5 billion years old, and though its life is far from over, it will ...
New study takes the Earth’s temperature over a half-billion years
The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to ...
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Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Algorithm used on Mars rover helps scientists on Earth see data in a new way
A new algorithm tested on NASA's Perseverance Rover on Mars may lead to better forecasting of hurricanes, wildfires, and ...
Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...
Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
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Earth's outer core may hold a hidden 'doughnut'
A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...