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China's secretive Tianwen-2 mission arrives at Earth's 'quasi-moon' ahead of historic landing

China's Tianwen-2 mission has likely arrived at the quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa, which orbits the sun alongside Earth. The ...
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Earth's Core May Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure

A representation of the underground imaging used in the study. (Edward Garnero and Mingming Li/Arizona State University) The ...

The space race is coming for pharma: Why drug development is heading to lower Earth orbit

Companies see a commercial opportunity in creating new ways to administer drugs to patients – in space.
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Earth is going to spin much faster over the next few months — so fast that several days are going to get shorter

Earth is expected to spin more quickly in the coming weeks, making some of our days unusually short. On July 9, July 22 and Aug. 5, the position of the moon is expected to affect Earth's rotation ...
Forbes

Updated: Why Earth Now Has A ‘Second Moon’ — But Only For 57 Days

2024 PT5, Earth’s newest mini-moon, is expected to go into orbit of Earth for a couple of months from Sept. 29, 2024. Update, Oct. 9, 2024: A link to a map of asteroid 2024 PT5’s orbit around the ...
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Earth slowly shifting toward its next ice age, scientists say

The Earth’s climate is a dynamic entity, continuously evolving over billions of years with alternating periods of extreme heat and cold. Recent scientific studies indicate that the Earth is subtly ...
New Scientist

When the sun engulfs Earth, will the remnants become new planets?

When the sun eventually expires and swells to engulf Earth, might the remnants of landfill and deeply buried nuclear waste be ...
Space.com

Earth and Theia smashed to birth the moon, but did they first start out as close neighbors?

"The most convincing scenario is that most of the building blocks of Earth and Theia originated in the inner solar system. Earth and Theia are likely to have been neighbors." When you purchase ...
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Plate tectonics may be why Earth has life — and the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ...
The Conversation

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth − so astrobiologists are coming up with a framework to study how complex systems evolve

We have only one example of biology forming in the universe – life on Earth. But what if life can form in other ways? How do you look for alien life when you don’t know what alien life might look ...
New Scientist

What lies beneath? The new era of Earth imaging

What happens when geophysicists, mathematicians and computer scientists collaborate to solve the planet's most complex subsurface challenges? Meet the innovators driving a revolution in how we see the ...