Gene Roddenberry created the sci-fi TV movie Planet Earth to replace Star Trek, but its dated approach to gender is likely a ...

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Planet Y may orbit closer than ‘Planet Nine’ A hidden planet could explain tilted KBO orbits New study suggests a rocky world like Earth ...

Scientists say a train of CMEs could impact Earth's magnetic field Oct. 15–17, bringing a chance of northern lights across northern North America. A train of solar storms is barreling toward Earth, ...

China’s fresh export controls on rare-earth materials are a critical issue for the European Union, EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic said, as tensions continue to rise between Brussels and Beijing. “These ...

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Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive ...

A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic ...

Col. Kevin Randle — former Vietnam helicopter pilot, former Iraq intelligence officer, UFO expert and specialist — on what happened in July 1947 in Roswell, a crappy little town of then maybe 50,000 ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

Humanity has reached the first Earth system tipping point, the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs, marking the beginning of irreversible planetary shifts. As global temperatures move beyond ...

Surging temperatures worldwide have pushed coral reef ecosystems into a state of widespread decline, marking the first time the planet has reached a climate ‘tipping point’, researchers announced ...