Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University of Amsterdam in a statement. This orbital period places it a little closer ...
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Extreme heat is pushing parts of Earth beyond human survival
Rising global temperatures may render extensive regions of the planet too hot for human survival over the coming decades.
For children: The universe tells the story of Earth, its most special planet
Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...
Half a degree rise in global warming will triple area of Earth that is 'too hot for humans’
Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...
A rare planetary alignment is lighting up the night sky—here’s how to see it
Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...
20 jaw-dropping places on Earth that look like an alien planet
Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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A piece of the dawn: Asteroid sample science hints at an ancient salt lake and conditions in the early solar system
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
Dwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objects
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...
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Observations from up above
From outer space, they observe Earth in daylight and darkness, a vision of an interlinked planet where borders are irrelevant ...