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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Around 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia is thought to have smashed into newborn Earth. The messy collision kicked ...
Geologically, the Himalayas stand as the most impressive natural monument on our planet Earth. Its snow-capped mountain peaks ...
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Satellite data reveals a huge solar storm in 2024 shrank Earth's protective plasma shield
Though it generated beautiful auroras around the world, the Gannon solar storm in 2024 was also a little dangerous.
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Mysterious lava puddles in Earth's mantle may hold clues about the origin of life: 'These are not random oddities'
Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...
Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...
Last year, the most violent geomagnetic storm to strike Earth in over two decades did more than disrupt GPS systems and ...
About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...
This new understanding comes from a study by a team led by Rutgers University geodynamicist Yoshinori Miyazaki. The research ...
A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...
Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.
A massive solar storm in May 2024 gave scientists an unprecedented look at how Earth’s protective plasma layer collapses ...
For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so ...
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