An artist’s impression of the far-future sun, swollen to become a red giant star, as seen from a molten Earth landscape. As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s ...
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Earth is closest to the sun right now, so why aren’t we roasting alive?
Every year in early January, Earth reaches the closest point in its orbit to the Sun, a moment astronomers call perihelion.
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How Long Earth Will Remain Habitable as the Sun and Climate Change
For how long can the Earth support complex life before entering an irreversible zone from an environmental perspective?
Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...
It’s impossible to forget just how much the sun affects life on our planet. It’s overwhelmingly the source of our light and heat, providing just enough to maintain the delicate climatic balance we ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
TL;DR: Researchers from the University of Tokyo and NASA used supercomputers to predict Earth's habitability will end around 1 billion years from now due to increasing solar heat. The Sun's expansion ...
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