Earth

Three-quarters of the world’s land became drier

Published on: December 9, 2024
09:36

Riyadh, Dec 9 (Prensa Latina) Despite intensifying water-related disasters such as floods, more than three-quarters of the world's land has become permanently drier in recent decades, scientists warned.

Russian Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft begins return to Earth

Published on: September 23, 2024
11:42

Moscow, Sep 23 (Prensa Latina) The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft, with three crew members on board, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) to begin the journey back to Earth, Russia's space agency Roscosmos reported today.

Magnetic storm on Earth intensified to very high level

Published on: May 11, 2024
10:06

Moscow, May 11 (Prensa Latina) The magnetic storm affecting the Earth has intensified to very high levels, the Institute of Applied Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences reported.

Plants helped shape Earth’s habitat conditions

Published on: May 2, 2024
11:15

Bern, May 2 (Prensa Latina) Plants contributed, and still do, to shaping the habitat conditions on Earth, although today they are the main victims of climate change, a study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) has revealed.

Cosmic megaexplosion of a nova will be visible from Earth

Published on: April 14, 2024
00:15

Washington, Apr 14 (Prensa Latina) The white dwarf star called T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) of the Corona Borealis is about to explode and it will be a spectacular and exceptional stampede of a nova that will be visible from Earth, it was reported.

Earth may disappear due to the Sun’s fault

Published on: April 10, 2024
09:43

London, Apr 10 (Prensa Latina) The planet Earth could disappear in about five billion years due to the Sun "absorbing" it, when it stops burning hydrogen in its nucleus and expands, it was known.

Change in Earth’s rotation will make humanity lose one second

Published on: March 29, 2024
00:45

Washington, Mar 29 (Prensa Latina) The Earth's rotation will change in the coming years, making humanity to lose one second of its time, due to the melting of polar ice caps, a new study published in the journal Nature confirmed.

China successfully launches Earth-Moon communications satellite

Published on: March 20, 2024
11:31

Beijing, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) China successfully launched a satellite on Wednesday that will allow communications between the Earth and the Moon, in view of its future lunar exploration missions. According to the National Space Administration, the Great March-8 carrier rocket took off with the Queqiao-2 relay satellite from the Wenchang launch site in southern Hainan province.

Four astronauts return to Earth after 199 days in orbit

Published on: March 12, 2024
15:06

Washington, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Four astronauts from different countries, including a woman, returned to Earth after six months on the International Space Station, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced.

Earth is moving towards a 25-hour day as rotation changes

Published on: March 4, 2024
18:09

Berlin, Mar 4 (Prensa Latina) Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that a day on Earth could eventually extend to 25 hours. The research marks a significant advancement in understanding Earth’s rotation through rotational dynamics.

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