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How Can Jupiter Have No Surface? A Look at the Planet That Could Swallow 1,000 Earths
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars – are all made of solid, rocky material, Jupiter is a gas giant with a composition similar t ...
A ‘Future Earth’ Has Been Found Around A Dying Star — What To Know
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Nearing Earth Today
The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.
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The 0.1% Are Using Private Jets Like Ubers and It’s Costing the Planet
The findings are alarming: private jet emissions reached 15.6 megatons of COâ‚‚ in 2023, a figure equivalent to the annual ...
Meteorite 200X Size of Dinosaur Killer Hit Earth—Here's What Happened Next
Cataclysmic cosmic collisions may have benefited the evolution of primitive organisms early in Earth's history, a study says.
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The Webb Telescope Found A Planet Orbiting A Star 35 Light Years Away — Its Data Is Just Plain Odd
Recent data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggests that a planet orbiting a small, red star 35 light years away ...
Asteroid Apophis Will Endure Quakes and Surface Shifts During 2029 Earth Flyby
A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.
‘Bizarre’ Moon Around Uranus Could Suddenly Host Life — What To Know
A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...
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A Chance Encounter 40 Years Ago Tricked Us Into Believing Uranus Couldn't Host Life
When Mars lost its magnetosphere, the whole planet changed; if Earth's magnetic field vanished tomorrow ... which coincided with an aggressive solar storm. Illustration of Uranus's magnetic field.
Missing Link To Snowball Earth History Emerges From Some Unusual Rocks On Colorado's Pikes Peak
Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...
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A Volcanic Moon Might Orbit a Planet 635 Light-Years Away: NASA
Artist's illustration of a volcanic exomoon ... About 635 light-years from Earth is WASP-49 b, a gas giant exoplanet with ...
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Could Spraying Diamonds into the Sky Be the Key to Cooling the Planet?
Nothing is more precious than our planet, and we must cool it fast. Scientists say this can be done by decorating the sky with diamonds.