Looking for a home off-world? Take your pick: Astroboffins estimate there are nearly 6bn Earth-likes in the Milky Way
Getting to them is, however, quite another kettle of fish
17 Jun 2020
Articles about Earth
Machine learning helps geoboffins spot huge beds of hot rocks 1,000km across deep below Earth's surface
Large structures were detected as anomalies in seismic waves processed by an algorithm
15 Jun 2020
Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later
Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface
15 May 2020
Russia admits, yup, the Americans are right: One of our rocket's tanks just disintegrated in Earth's orbit
Good luck fishing all that out of the sky
12 May 2020
Quick Q: Er, why is the Moon emitting carbon? And does this mean it wasn't formed from Theia hitting Earth?
Decades-old theory may require a rethink thanks to Japanese probe
07 May 2020
Kepler telescope is dead but the data lives on: Earth-sized habitable zone planet found after boffins check for errors
300 light years away but hey, why not?
16 Apr 2020
Academic showdown as boffins biff-baff over when Version 1.0 of Earth's magnetic core was released
'They have not reported an objective analysis' – now that's a zinger
08 Apr 2020
Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma
Red Planet's sporadic E layers shed light on our world's interference
04 Feb 2020
Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff
Sprinkles from extrasolar red giants found here on Earth
11 Dec 2019
Boffins believe it was volcanoes, not just life, that made Earth what it is today – oxygen rich
Photosynthesis alone ain't going to cut it as an explanation
03 Dec 2019
Your FREE end-of-the-world guide: What happens when a sun like ours runs out of fuel
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero
15 May 2019
Guess what shrinks when it gets cold and then you shake it around a little? The Moon. We're talking about the Moon
What did you think we meant?
14 May 2019
Earth's noggin took quite a clockin' back in the day: Now a second meteorite crater spotted under Greenland ice
Pics, videoHuge hole hints at home world taking a pounding
12 Feb 2019
Core-blimey! Riddle of Earth's mysterious center finally 'solved' by smarty seismologists
So solid crew confirm old idea by spotting tiny waves
19 Oct 2018
Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common
Maybe its inhabitants are mostly harmless and ordinary too
17 Aug 2018
No lie-in this morning? Thank the Moon's gravitational pull
Complex tidal forces have drawn out the day
06 Jun 2018
North will remain North for now, say geo-magnetic boffins
Much-feared magnetic field 'flip' not happening anytime soon
01 May 2018
Boffins find sign of water existing deep into Earth's mantle by looking at diamonds
How far down does water drip?
16 Mar 2018
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