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In the event that Earth is struck by an asteroid, the sun goes supernova or the planet is soaked in gamma ray bursts in an extreme energetic explosion, the last surviving creatures won't be cockroaches - they will be tardigrades...

If you didn’t want to be an astronaut before today, you will now. Recently, NASA scientists aboard the International Space Station had the honor of watching the northern lights — also known as the aurora borealis —...

1,000 to 520 million years ago, Earth's climate was undergoing dramatic changes. From icy extremes in what some have termed Snowball Earth, to warmer conditions as an increase in oxygen led to the Cambrian explosion of biodiversity,...

Right now there are 7.5 billion people on Earth - and counting. But the world in 2050 will be even more packed, according to new United Nations (UN) projections. This week they released the World Population Prospects: 2017...

If there’s one thing that abounds on planet Earth, it is man-made trash. Fortunately, researchers have developed a method of using discarded goods to create sodium-ion batteries. Made from recycled materials and safer than...

Want to know exactly what President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement means? Here are some projections of how climate change could alter our planet in the upcoming century...

A previously undetected layer of tectonic plates may offer answers to the mysterious Vityaz earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean. Researchers recently presented their preliminary findings on an additional layer of tectonic plates...

From NASA Goddard via the OCO-2 Satellite Carbon dioxide is the most important greenhouse gas released to the atmosphere through human activities. It is also influenced by natural exchange with the land and ocean. This visualization...

Tiny zircon crystals have allowed scientists at Australian National University (ANU) to paint a portrait of what Earth looked like over four billion years ago...

Scientists have found strange, ancient microbes in Mexico's Naica crystal caves that could be around 50,000 years old. Although the caves are so hot they've been described as hell - while also being so magical they've been...

Biologists, economists, and ecologists have gathered at the Vatican to discuss what actions humanity can take to preserve Earth's biosphere. Attending the Biological Extinction conference, these researchers say one in five...

A literal breath of air from the time of Earth’s first animals was recently found, extracted, and analyzed by University of Aberdeen scientists. The discovery of atmospheric gas trapped in a sample of halite shows that...

Earth has sprung a leak. Every day, 90 metric tons of matter leaks from Earth's upper atmosphere into space. This sounds scary, but in total the atmosphere weighs about five quadrillion metric tons, so we have a lot of atmosphere...

For most relationships, 100 years is well past the point in time when you can ‘make it official,’ but for planets, it’s just right. After nearly a century in Earth’s orbit, a tiny asteroid has earned NASA’s recognition...

In the late hours of March 8th (March 9th local time), the moon is set to pass in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse. But if you're not located in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Borneo, or the middle of the Pacific...