What if Earth’s Magnetic Field Disappeared? Trump orders all federal DEI employees placed on paid leave starting Wednesday We ...

they all disappeared? That instant might shock onlooking astronauts on the space station. But someone who is, say, hiking in the desert wouldn't know right away that things on Earth were about to ...

What If is a Webby Award-winning science web series that takes you on a journey through hypothetical worlds and possibilities, some in distant corners of the universe, others right here on Earth.

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

And in the process, Earth's rotation is actually slowing down. What if one night, the moon simply disappeared? Would we miss it? A full moon is on average 14,000 times brighter than the next ...

But if they disappeared tomorrow, we might actually miss them. There are over 3,000 species of mosquitoes on Earth, all of which are food to birds, bats, frogs, and other animals. No more ...

These lingering human traces would be puzzling to any aliens that stumble upon our planet, but the biggest mystery would be how we suddenly disappeared off the face of the Earth.

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life. "We're trying to figure out how much mass is reaching Venus from Earth, and how many cells can that mass carry," Emma Guinan, first author of a ...