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Clouds over the ocean as viewed from space.
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Darker, Less Cloudy Earth Contributed to Record Heat

by Nathaniel Scharping 8 January 20258 January 2025

Decreases to our planet’s albedo caused by fewer low-lying clouds helped push temperatures to historic highs in 2023, according to new research.

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Telescopes Catch the Aftermath of an Energetic Planetary Collision

by Marta Hill 20 December 202420 December 2024

A planetary collision 1,800 light-years away birthed a body that has cooled in unexpected ways.

The grayscale surface of an asteroid with many boulders
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Magnetic Meteorites May Explain How the Solar System Assembled

by Jenna Ahart 12 December 202412 December 2024

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the growth of the outer planets.

The sunny side of Earth as viewed from the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
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Scientists May Have Found Another Viscosity Shift in the Mantle

by Perri Thaler 12 December 202412 December 2024

The proposed distinction could improve Earth models.

Side-by-side images of irregularly shaped gray/brown rocks in space.
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Pluto’s Small Moons Are Unlike Any Other

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 December 202410 December 2024

The strange blend of surface chemistry on Nix and Hydra raises big question about the evolution of the Pluto system.

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Straightening Out Uranus’s Magnetosphere

Damond Benningfield, Science Writer by Damond Benningfield 6 December 20246 December 2024

New analysis of Voyager 2 observations shows that the craft arrived amid gusty solar wind, muddying our ideas about the giant planet.

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Geoscientists Demystify Baseball’s Magic Mud

by Elise Cutts 5 December 20245 December 2024

Taking baseball’s mysterious Rubbing Mud into the lab revealed no magic ingredients—but plenty of useful natural properties from geomaterials.

Image manipulation of Earth and the Moon seen from orbit with Saturn’s rings disappearing behind the horizon.
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A Close Asteroid Encounter May Have Once Given Earth a Ring

Kimberly M. S. Cartier, News Writing and Production Intern for Eos.org by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 18 October 202418 October 2024

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created a temporary debris ring around Earth.

Layers of rock visible in a cliff in Nanliang, Shanxi, China.
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Mega El Niño May Have Led to Major Mass Extinction 252 Million Years Ago

by Rebecca Owen 11 October 202411 October 2024

The extreme climate conditions wrought by a decades-long ENSO pattern could be the culprit in the Great Dying, which wiped out nearly 90% of life on Earth.

A strikingly blue lake surrounded by the snowcapped rock walls of a volcano.
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New Details About a Very Old Eruption and Flood

by Saima May Sidik 9 October 20249 October 2024

One of the most dramatic volcanic eruptions in history occurred more than 1,000 years ago. Scientists are still piecing together the aftermath.

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