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Telescope on the background of the starry sky and moon. (Getty Images/Anton Petrus)

The moon may be older than we thought

Nicole Karlis
Planet Earth and the Moon (Getty Images/forplayday)

Earth gets temporary second moon

Matthew Rozsa
A heat wave in Thailand in April 2024. (Chuchart Duangdaw / Getty Images)

We had our hottest summer ever — again

Matthew Rozsa
A man walks in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo where temperatures have topped 35 degrees Celsius on July 8, 2024. (PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)

Earth just had its two hottest days ever

Matthew Rozsa
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False color image of Antarctic ozone hole, 30 November 1992. NASA photograph. ((Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images))

Ozone protection efforts are working

Matthew Rozsa
A view of the partially melting glaciers as a polar bears, one of the species most affected by climate change, walk in Svalbard and Jan Mayen, on July 15, 2023. (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Earth's ice caps are in serious trouble

Matthew Rozsa
Sunrise in Space (Getty Images/BlackJack3D)

The origin of life's building materials

Shichun Huang, Wenzhong Wang - The Conversation
Artistic rendering of the possible view from LHS 3154b towards its low mass host star. Given its large mass, LHS 3154b probably has a Neptune-like composition. (Penn State, CC BY-NC-ND)

Planet discovered is too big for its sun

Matthew Rozsa
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Intergrated sustainable energy close to the modern industrial zone buildings (Getty Images/Yaorusheng)

What's good for Earth is good for people

Matthew Rozsa
Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
Antarctica, ice on the sea (Getty Images/Mantas Vidutis/500px)

Earth enters "uncharted territory"

Matthew Rozsa
Helium Balloon Earth (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Earth's core is leaking helium

Matthew Rozsa
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Planet Earth and moon from space (Getty Images/photovideostock/NASA)

Earth is exceeding its planetary bounds

Matthew Rozsa
Space junk around Earth (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Space junk is only going to increase

Chris Impey - The Conversation
Psyche asteroid in space (Getty Images/24K-Production/NASA)

What NASA’s Psyche mission may reveal

Jim Bell - The Conversation
Ruins of a city, apocalyptic landscape (Getty Images/vicnt)

The worst-case climate change scenario

Matthew Rozsa
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Illustration of planet Venus with visible atmosphere (Getty Images/Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library)

Venus joins the active volcano club

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s conception of a rocky Earth-mass exoplanet, called Kepler-1649c, orbiting a red dwarf star. (NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter)

The planet down the block is a lot

Nicole Karlis
Meteorite from outer space, falling toward planet Earth (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Apocalyptic asteroid found near Venus

Matthew Rozsa
Planet Earth, sun and stars (Getty images/NASA/egal)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism?

Troy Farah
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Earth viewed from Space (Getty Images/Jaiphet Seehawong)

Earth is spinning faster than it should

Nicole Karlis
Iceberg melting in Disko Bay in Greenland (Getty Images/Paul Souders)

Climate change intensifying water cycle

Donna Lu - Grist
Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

Space junk will give Earth a ring

Matthew Rozsa
Magnet Over Earth (Getty Images/CSA Images)

Is Earth inside a magnetic tunnel?

Matthew Rozsa
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