Earth Could Survive the Sun’s Bloated Death Stage, But There’s a Catch

The star’s looming death will dramatically reshape the inner solar system, engulfing Mercury and Venus in a fiery sphere. The ...

Super-deep diamond discovery may rewrite Earth's role in preserving the building blocks of life

Two diamonds formed 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface reveal a life-giving synchronicity between shifting continents ...
Space.com

Sun unleashes powerful X-class solar flare and Earth-bound CME that could spark northern lights for July 4 weekend

The X1.1 eruption briefly disrupted radio communications across the daylight side of Earth, while forecasters now expect the ...
Scientific American

Will humanity be able to protect Earth from a deadly asteroid?

Our solar system is a celestial shooting gallery, chock-full of flying projectiles that one day could threaten Earth—so what ...

How long can plants survive on Earth? New model suggests up to 2 billion more years

Vegetarians need not worry yet—plants will be on Earth for a long time to come. But not forever. The sun will ultimately ...

'The fate of Earth depends on a delicate balance': Our planet may survive the death of the sun after all, n...

When the sun dies, it will become hundreds of times its current size and engulf the innermost planets. Earth may escape this ...
New Scientist

Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a microbe ...

Why was the early Earth so hot? The heat wasn’t just coming from the inside

When you think about a large asteroid impact, you might imagine a moment of devastation: a violent collision, a blast of heat ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The First Photo From Space

View of Earth from a camera on V-2 #13, launched October 24, 1946. White Sands Missile Range/Applied Physics Laboratory On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the ...