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The “Snowball Earth” theory suggests that the impact of asteroid strikes blocked sunlight, leading to a global cooling of the planet. Click to read more.

A black hole 10 billion light-years away suddenly switched on, becoming one of the brightest transient objects ever detected.

There's a growing body of evidence showing that Earth formed more quickly than thought. And it didn't wait for asteroids to bring its water.

Global warming is melting Earth’s glaciers, which is moving vast amounts of water—maybe enough to affect the planet’s rotation.

Could Earth ever be destroyed by a particularly intense solar storm? When battling extreme space weather, our planet might have one significant edge.

It's a question you might well have asked yourself whilst gazing up at the night sky: Could Earth support more moons like the Moon? Or would the gravitational forces involved pull our planet out of its safe trajectory? The answer, according to a new...