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Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists

Solar System's Run-In With 'Space Cloud' May Have Triggered a Series of Ice Ages 2 Million Years Ago, Says Scientists Around two million years ago, Earth underwent a series of temperature ...

Planet Earth, explained

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...
Phys.org

Exploring an alternate solar system: Research maps impact of 'super-Earth'

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary ...
Scientific American

The solar system’s first solids formed in a rush

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed ...
Gizmodo

Gizmodo Science Fair: Beaming Solar Energy From Space to Earth

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space ...
Phys.org

Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows

An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...
IFLScience

What Did Galileo See In Venus And Jupiter That Convinced Him Earth Goes Around The Sun?

While Galileo's observations killed off the old model, we would need to wait centuries for conclusive evidence that Earth ...
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Earth got hit by a surprise solar flare; why didn’t scientists see it?

Earth’s magnetic field was rattled by a solar outburst that arrived with almost no warning, lighting up skies and briefly reminding power grid operators and satellite controllers how vulnerable ...