Earth

Last Updated: April 22, 2026

How did water get on Earth?
Planetary Origins

Last Updated: April 19, 2026

How did water get on Earth?

Volcanic steam, carbonaceous chondrites, and a multi-million-year deluge fused into the oceans that became Earth's lifeblood—half your glass may be cosmic delivery, half primordial sweat.

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Humanity found a second Earth, but sadly, we can never go there
Exoplanets & Habitability

Last Updated: April 21, 2026

Humanity found a second Earth, but sadly, we can never go there

Discovered in 2011 in Cygnus, Kepler-22b seemed a perfect 22°C "Earth 2.0"—until closer study revealed a water world 635 light-years away that even our fastest ships could not reach in a million years.

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What's inside the Earth?
Geophysics

Last Updated: April 20, 2026

What's inside the Earth?

From a thin crust to a 6,000°C solid inner core, Earth's layered interior was forged in magma hell and mapped by earthquake echoes—long before humans dug 12 km deep.

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The changing of the seasons has nothing to do with how close or far the Earth is from the Sun
Earth & Sun

Last Updated: April 22, 2026

The changing of the seasons has nothing to do with how close or far the Earth is from the Sun

On January 3 Earth is closest to the Sun yet the Northern Hemisphere freezes—because a fixed 23.5° axial tilt, not distance, directs the seasons.

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