New research from Boston University and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute suggests that the Sun passed through a huge hydrogen cloud two million years ago, directly affecting its protective heliosphere and may have permanently altered all life on Earth. Evidence for this event and its effects on Earth’s climate also shows that the Sun’s location in …
The Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been chilly due to a cloud in space that briefly removed Earth from the …
Michigan HT Image {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} Michigan, The Sun warms the Earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all it does, and it affects a much larger area of space. 3.6 Crore Indians visited in a single day choosing us as India’s undisputed platform for General Election Results. Explore the …
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The Solar System is a big place, spread over billions of kilometers in each direction from Earth, and it does not end at Pluto. Instead, there is a much wider field of rocks and ice known as the Kuiper belt that encircles it. Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has now revealed signs that this boundary of …