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Nazarii Neshcherenskyi/Getty Images Did Volcanoes on Mars Erupt During the Last Days of the Dinosaurs?
While Earth was still in its dinosaur era and edging into mammal history, Mars still had volcanic activity in the Tharsis region.
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Photo: ratpack223 / Getty Images 7 Space Objects That Could Wipe Us Out and How Close They’ve Come to Earth
Never forget we’re on a spinning rock in a sea of nothingness.
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Photo: MARIOS07 / Getty Images Life Hiding Deep Beneath Earth May Be Waiting Thousands of Years to Wake Up
How does anything become well-adapted to “almost nothing” for thousands of years?
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Anand Purohit/Getty Images Something ‘Impossible’ Slammed Into Earth in 2023, and Scientists Have a Wild New Theory About It
The truth will depend on whether future detectors catch more neutrinos like this one.
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MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/GETTY IMAGES Everything We Know About the Asteroid That Might Hit the Moon in 2032
A strike would release around eight megatons of energy, more than enough to make it the most energetic lunar impact ever observed by humans.
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Photo: janiecbros / Getty Images The Satellite Trash Surrounding Earth Is One Bad Solar Storm Away From Disaster
We’re one powerful geomagnetic storm away from knocking out global communication and navigation.
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Photo: Sonsedska / Getty Images 8 Space Facts That Will Make You Feel Like You’re Living Inside a Glitch
Give yourself an existential crisis, as a treat!
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Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images 6 Natural Phenomena on Earth That Sound Fake But Aren’t
Play the X-Files theme while you read for an immersive experience.
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Mary Parrish/NMNH Everything We Know About Prototaxites, the Giant Organism That Came Before Trees
This thing should not exist, and that’s exactly the problem.
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Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Will Earth Really Lose Gravity in 2026?
People are now believing that the earth will allegedly “lose gravity” for seven seconds on August 12, 2026. Yes, really.
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Photo: Cobalt88 / Getty Images Mars Wasn’t Always a Red Planet, It Used to Be Blue
The red planet had a massive ocean about 3 billion years ago, effectively making it blue, a lot like Earth is today.
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