Humans evolved to live on an icy planet. Earth is usually much hotter.
As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.
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Extreme Drop in Oxygen Will Eventually Suffocate Most Life on Earth
For now, life is flourishing on our oxygen-rich planet, but Earth wasn't always that way – and scientists have predicted that ...
The Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why
Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ... anywhere near those conditions again, because (Earth back then) was a ...
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Is a Big Asteroid Going to Hit Earth in 2032?
A nearly 98 percent chance it won’t hit us is pretty good. Second, while that’s definitely a massive rock, it’s not like a ...
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'Future Earth' discovered by scientists hints at the humbling fate of our planet
The rocky planet orbits a White Dwarf, the stellar core left behind from a dying star. KMT-2020-BLG-0414 is twice the size of Earth with its planetary system also containing a brown dwarf ...
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‘A planet is dying on camera’: James Webb just captured an exoplanet tearing itself apart
MIT researchers estimate one planet, BD+05 4868Ab, is losing mass at a rate of 10 Earth masses per billion years. Since it’s roughly moon-sized, its total destruction is imminent—within a few ...
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The Permian extinction—when life nearly came to an end
For months I'd been on the trail of the greatest natural disaster in Earth's history. About 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, something killed some 90 percent of the planet ...
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'The Man Who Fell to Earth' premieres April 24 on Showtime — here's how to watch the new sci-fi series
Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the show tells the story of an alien who comes to Earth and must blend in with humanity in order to save his dying planet. The book was famously adapted to the ...