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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 ...

A major new report warns that humanity is approaching irreversible climate tipping points, including the loss of coral reefs and potential collapse of polar ice sheets. Credit: Shutterstock The 2025 ...

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 ...

The first humans didn’t walk into cities or civilizations—they faced shifting climates, fierce predators, and raw survival. This is the world our earliest ancestors called home. Secret Service finds ...

Researchers first detected the South Atlantic Anomaly in the 19th century. Inside its boundaries, the magnetic field that radiates away from Earth's interior dips down to an altitude of about 120 ...

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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 ...

Scientists have documented the first-ever record of an oarfish (Regalecus russellii) in Sri Lanka, a 2.6-meter (8.5-foot) specimen caught off the country’s western coast. The find expands the known ...

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to ...

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping point. Relentlessly rising heat in the oceans has now pushed corals around the world past their ...