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New eruption of the Etna volcano in Sicily. (Marco Restivo/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

Earth has a 27-million-year "pulse"

Earth cross section in space view (Getty Images)

Earth gets a new layer

Globe Spinning (Getty Images)

Why Earth is spinning faster than before

The fate of the Earth: See page five

Tom Engelhardt - TomDispatch.com

This artist’s impression shows the supergiant star Betelgeuse as it was revealed thanks to different state-of-the-art techniques on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), which allowed two independent teams of astronomers to obtain the sharpest ever views of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. They show that the star has a vast plume of gas almost as large as our Solar System and a gigantic bubble boiling on its surface. These discoveries provide important clues to help explain how these mammoths shed material at such a tremendous rate. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Why Betelgeuse may go supernova

This is an artist's concept of a plume of water vapor thought to be ejected off the frigid, icy surface of the Jovian moon Europa, located about 500 million miles (800 million kilometers) from the sun. Spectroscopic measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope led scientists to calculate that the plume rises to an altitude of 125 miles (201 kilometers) and then it probably rains frost back onto the moon's surface. Previous findings already pointed to a subsurface ocean under Europa's icy crust. (NASA/ESA/K. Retherford/SWRI)

Jupiter's moon Europa teems with water

Saturn with moons (Getty Images)

An Earth-like moon orbiting Saturn

Aerial view of the Bangkok city skyline and the Chao Phraya River, Thailand. (Getty Images/Deejpilot)

These cities will drown as the seas rise

The Earth if it had two moons (Getty Images/Salon)

Do we owe our existence to the Moon?

Keith A. Spencer

(Marcelo Hernandez/Getty Images)

Exoplanets better suited for life?

Mike Wehner - BGR

(livespringwater.com)

The power of hydrogen

Nicholas Leadbeater - The Conversation

(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

Moon’s craters reveal Earth’s history

Sara Mazrouei - The Conversation

(Getty/RomoloTavani)

Putin warns of threat of nuclear war

This computer graphic image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows two drum-shaped and solar-powered Minerva-II-1 rovers on an asteroid. Japanese unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 released two small Minerva-II-1 rovers on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (JAXA via AP)

A historic day in space exploration

This image made available by NASA shows an artist's rendering of the Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. (AP/NASA)

NASA probe to "kiss the sun"

Keith A. Spencer

Earth's Ozone Layer (NASA)

Captain Planet foiled again

DALLOL, ETHIOPIA - JANUARY 23: A sulphur lake is pictured in the Danakil Depression on January 23, 2017 near Dallol, Ethiopia. The depression lies 100 metres below sea level and is one of the hottest and most inhospitable places on Earth. Despite the gruelling conditions, Ethiopians continue a centuries old industry of mining salt from the ground by hand in temperatures that average 34.5 degrees centigrade but have risen to over 50 degrees. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images) (Getty Images)

Salt reveals clues about life on Earth

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2010 file photo, steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson

Matthew Ponsford - Alternet

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, February 6, 2018 (Getty/Joe Raedle)

SpaceX launch: Flat-Earthers' nightmare

(Getty/Giuseppe Cacace)

Arguing over the Moon

Keith A. Spencer

(AP/NASA)

You don’t need to build rockets to prove

Ian Whittaker - The Conversation

(Shutterstock/Salon)

The planet where it rains sunscreen

Keith A. Spencer

The moon is obscuring part of the sun over flowers during a solar eclipse in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. Earth's sun is the primary natural source of neutrino emissions detectable on Earth. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Sunspots: a disaster

Alexa Halford, Brett Carter, Julie Currie - The Conversation

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