Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
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Earth May Once Have Had A Ring Like Saturn
The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.
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In a Landmark Study, Scientists Discover Just How Much Earth’s Temperature Has Changed Over Nearly 500 Million Years
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
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New research reenvisions Earth's mantle as a relatively uniform reservoir
Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.
Huge Variations in Earth's Temperature Over Last Half-Billion Years
A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...
Study charts how Earth's global temperature has drastically changed over the past 485 million years, driven by CO₂
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...
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Earth’s ancient ‘greenhouse’ conditions were hotter than thought
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
Prehistoric Earth Was Very Hot. That Offers Clues About Future Earth.
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...
Smithsonian Magazine16h
Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting Space Rocks 466 Million Years Ago
A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...
Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
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Earth's new 'mini-moon' will orbit our planet for the next 2 months
The mini-moon, an asteroid called 2024 PT5, was spotted by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on Aug.
What human-made object is the farthest from Earth?
Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...