Good News! Turns Out the Earth Will Never Be Swallowed by the Sun

A new study suggests that when our star becomes unstable in 5 billion years or so, Earth may avoid being engulfed by its ...

The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...
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The quest for immortality: How science is trying to end ageing

Longevity research has evolved from ancient myths, like Emperor Qin Shi Huang's quest for an elixir, into a multi-billion ...

This satellite constellation transformed earth science by creatively tuning in to GPS signals

When NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, launched into orbit in 2016, none of the University of ...

Planet found orbiting a dead star could preview what will happen to our solar system

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

Earth microbes can survive individual martian hazards—and evade astronaut immune systems

Hopefully, we're about to travel back to the moon relatively soon. And while the original "giant leap for mankind" was taken ...

12 billion years old interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be older than the solar system

I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately this was no ordinary comet.
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Building Blocks of the Solar System: A Conversation with Meenakshi Wadhwa on Asteroid Day

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...
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Précis of the Lectures on Architecture with Graphic Portion of the Lectures on Architecture

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