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An interstellar cloud may have caused an ice age on Earth. Here's how
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe sun protects our solar system's planets from the harsh environment of interstellar space; 2...
Interstellar Intruder: The Cosmic Event That Rewrote Earth’s Climate History
SciTechDaily· 7 days agoIn a new paper published today (June 10) in Nature Astronomy, lead author and astrophysicist Merav...
Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth
IFLScience· 2 days agoAs the Moon orbits the Earth, the Earth orbits the Sun, and the Sun orbits the center of the Milky...
A Giant Interstellar Cloud May Have Once Enveloped Earth, Potentially Causing Ice Ages
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoNow, research published this week in the journal Nature Astronomy offers another hypothesis of...
8 strange objects that could be hiding in the outer solar system
LiveScience· 2 days agoMost of the good stuff, such as the planets, moons and asteroid belt, are grouped relatively tightly...
Cosmic cloud exposed Earth to interstellar space 3 million years ago
New Scientist· 6 days agoResearchers have only recently been able to map the path of the sun through our galaxy, particularly...
"Drastic changes" in interstellar space may have caused ice age
Newsweek· 6 days agoEarth may have been exposed to interstellar clouds which may have changed the chemistry of the...
Interstellar Space Clouds Triggered the Ice Ages, Research Suggests
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThe Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in...
Interstellar Cloud May Have Triggered Last Ice Age
ExtremeTech· 4 days agoDuring the Pleistocene Epoch, often called the Ice Age, Earth was subject to numerous periods of glacial expansion. Scientists have proposed numerous mechanisms for the ice age, including the ...
Voyager 1 is back to life in interstellar space, but for how long?
Washington Post· 3 days agoNASA engineers have succeeded in breathing new life into Voyager 1, the spacecraft launched in 1977...