Earth's magnetic field dramatically flipped a little more than 40,000 years ago. We can now experience this epic upheaval, thanks to a clever interpretation of information collected by the European ...

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep ...

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Researchers predict that a collision with the asteroid Bennu would plunge Earth into a year's long 'impact winter'.

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A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... brilliant target for the next generation of telescopes to probe its atmosphere, and for scientists to test the extreme limits of planetary ...

For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...