Earth’s 5 catastrophic mass extinctions, explained
Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
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Astronomers Investigate Whether Dying Star's Blast of Deadly Gamma Radiation Will Hit Earth
For over a decade, a star system on the verge of unleashing a deadly gamma ray burst appeared to have its guns trained on ...
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses
The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to ...
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Mysterious 'Death Star' on The Verge of Exploding Is Hiding a Secret
WR 104 is notable not just for the rarity of Wolf-Rayet stars in the galaxy, but also for the spiral shape its escaping dust ...
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1st glacier declared dead from climate change seen in before and after images — Earth from space
Satellite images taken more than three decades apart show the disappearance of Iceland's Okjökull, the first glacier to be ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
Perhaps the falling of water, the most crucial element that sustains us, also played a greater role in the origin of life on Earth than we previously recognized.” Mindy Weisberger is a science ...