As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

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Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Your favorite cartoon pig and duck are on a mission to save the world in a new trailer for The Day the Earth Blew Up: A ...

ITV has commissioned the six-part series Extreme Planet Earth from Plimsoll Productions (A Year on Planet Earth, A Real Bug’s Life).

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

This promising planet is a super-Earth, a telluric planet larger than the Earth. It is part of a planetary system containing two other planets. It orbits a G-type star, like the sun, at a distance ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have found an exoplanet – a planet outside our own solar system – more than six times the size of Earth. The exoplanet, named HD 20794 d, orbits in ...

Astronomers have just uncovered an intriguing planet not far from us in cosmic terms. It’s a super-Earth, orbiting a star similar to our Sun, and it might have the conditions necessary to support life ...

With this new threat unlocked, the search crew must fight for survival and what they choose to do with this discovery could change planet Earth as they know it.” So it’s called Alien ...