The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...
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Earth May Get a New Ocean and Continent Sooner Than Expected
Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...
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New ocean is being born on Earth: It’s very close to America, but is “strange”
An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa, which will be very close to America predict scientists (around five to ten million years from now). This rare ...
An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032, NASA says. Here's what to know about the potential "city killer."
"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...
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‘It’s almost science fiction’: Scientists say the shape of Earth’s inner core is changing
Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape ... more than 3 million times greater than Earth’s average atmospheric pressure on ...
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Nuclear weapon could be used to defend Earth from asteroid 2024 YR4, astronomer says
The asteroid, called 2024 YR4 and measuring 100m by 40m, is currently at a distance of around 27 million miles ... of its orbit" so that four years later it misses Earth. Just over two years ...
Do You Need to Worry About an Asteroid Hitting Earth?
That’s the day an asteroid dubbed 2024 YR4 may strike our planet. Cosmic bookmakers don’t make an impact terribly likely. According to NASA, the odds of a collision are just 2.3%. But that nearly ...
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The Odds of a Newly Discovered Asteroid Hitting Earth in 2032 Keep Rising
The odds of an asteroid crashing into Earth in 2032 keep changing, and not in a good way. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1-in-45 chance of impacting our planet in seven years. The odds are not a huge ...
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1st supernovas may have flooded the early universe with water — making life possible just 100 million years after the Big Bang
Aside from Earth, astronomers have ... that permeate the Milky Way. Until now, scientists assumed that all this water gradually built up over billions of years as hydrogen, the most abundant ...
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An Asteroid Has a 1-in-63 Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032—Here’s What That Means
1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth ... slammed into the planet 66 million years ago, ending the reign of ...
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Asteroid The Size Of Football Field Has Chance Of Hitting Earth In 8 Years
It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth ... 66 million years ago, when a ...