Oct. 10, 2024 — Microscopic organisms in the ocean play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new study unveils a hidden biological factor that could change our ...

Eight years into living in Longyearbyen, on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, I embrace the seasonal plunge into total darkness Cecilia Blomdahl Scientists aren't sure how the circular ...

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

The Copernicus Sentinel Expansion Missions are a major leap forward in Europe's Earth observation capabilities. With the United Kingdom's re-entry to the EU's Copernicus program, funding has been ...

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NASA scientists calculated that Earth should have captured a "second ... community@space.com. Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World ...

Earth is about to pluck a second moon from an asteroid belt — but we only get this mini-moon for 57 days. It's an asteroid about the size of a school bus, at 35 feet long, and it has a typical ...

Earth tends to pull asteroids into partial or full orbits around it regularly before they are flung back out into space. Artist’s impression of asteroid in space (NASA/JPL-Caltech) For instance ...

Tomkins, whose study was published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. “That made me think how would I see, in the geological record, if Earth had had a ring in the past as well.” ...

Science News // 2 days ago NASA says comet expected to put on show in Earth fly-by Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A comet just discovered last year by observers will whizz past Earth from 44 million miles away ...

A recently discovered asteroid has become a quasi-satellite of Earth as it loops around our planet over the next two months. Earth has a new moon — a mini-moon to be exact — as a small ...

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