Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin wants to defend Earth against dangerous asteroids. Here’s how
Blue Origin is teaming up with NASA to thwart asteroids that may be on collision…
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Deep underground, a telescope may soon detect ghosts of stars that died before Earth existed
This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's…
Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, is a prime target in the hunt for life elsewhere…
Art Meets Science at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory – State of the Planet
Carson Witte, September Arctic Sea Ice Volume Change. The layers in this sculpture depict September…
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
Ocean warming has led to widespread bleaching of warm-water coralsSirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images Global warming has…
Auroras on Jupiter’s giant moon Ganymede look like Earth’s northern lights, NASA spacecraft reveals
A fleeting flyby of Ganymede has revealed that its shimmering auroras may behave far more…
Snowball Earth’s liquid seas dipped way below freezing
This article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert…
How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?
Could this dramatic image ever happen for real?angel_nt/Getty Images Somewhere, out in the cold depths…
Earth’s Strongest Gravity Hole Sits Beneath Antarctica—And Now We Know How It Got There
Gravity feels solid. Dependable. The kind of thing you can count on wherever you plant…
Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky
Earth’s magnetic field extends tens of thousands of kilometres into spaceGetty Images/iStockphoto Two vast, mysterious…