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Earth as a planet
Yet despite the drumbeat of evidence, we still know of just one planet in the cosmos with life — the one you’re standing on.
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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What Earth Would Look Like If All Ice Melted
The concept of all Earth’s ice melting might sound like a scene from a science fiction movie, but it is a scenario that ...
The Earth is safe from asteroid 2024 YR4. The moon? Not so much, Webb telescope finds
An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 won't be crashing into Earth, but the James Webb Space Telescope went to get a look at it ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.
Earth’s soil is drying up. It could be irreversible.
The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
Earth 1, asteroids 0: The next generation of planetary defense takes shape at JPL
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet, ...