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Atmospheric CO2 at Levels Unseen for 3 Million Years

By Ciara Nugent

See Earth From Above

See How the View of Earth From Space Has Changed Over 21 Years

By Chris Wilson

Our Wifi Signal Will Be Faster and Travel on Light

By The Aspen Institute
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The Moon May Once Have Been Many Moons

A new study upends an old theory

By Jeffrey Kluger

See the Earth and Moon from Mars in New NASA Image

NASA's images of the Earth and the moon were processed separately and then combined

By TIME Photo

The Best Space Photos of 2016

From Saturn's rings to this year's supermoons, TIME looks back at the best space images

By TIME Photo and Kim Bubello

Google Unveils 3-Decade Time-Lapse of the Earth

Google Unveils a 3-Decade Time-Lapse of the Earth By Jeffrey Kluger It doesn't pay to take your eyes off the Earth for a second. Look away even briefly and who knows what it will get...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Our Obsession with Happiness Is Making Us Miserable

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

How We Can Finally Get to Mars

It won’t be easy, but there’s a way

By Jeffrey Kluger and Lon Tweeten

Antarctic Ozone Layer Shows Signs of Healing

The discovery suggests man-made environmental damage can be healed

By Tessa Berenson

Earth and Mars Are About to Get Very Cozy

An alignment will bring the planets closer—and make Mars brighter—than they've been in years

By Jeffrey Kluger

See Amazing Photos of Earth Taken by a Japanese Satellite

Celebrate Earth Day with these satellite photos, recently released to the public

By Marisa Gertz

NASA's Space Tourism Posters Will Make You Want to Travel the Galaxy

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has released a series of imaginative 'vintage' tourism posters for future space travel destinations

By TIME Photo

How the Sun Protects Earth From Getting Clobbered By an Asteroid

A trick of heat and light makes space rocks self-destruct

By Jeffrey Kluger

Flawless 404-Carat Diamond Discovered in Angola Mine

It is the 27th biggest ever discovered

By Ali Gostanian / NBC News

Astronaut Tim Peake Shares Incredible Footage of Lightning Striking Earth

"Amazing how much lightning can strike our planet in a short time"

By Megan McCluskey

Giant Comets Could Collide With Earth

The massive comets are known as centaurs

By Victor Luckerson

New Google Doodle Marks 2015 Winter Solstice

It's the shortest day and the longest night of the year

By Rishi Iyengar

A New and Vivid Earthrise

Our planet is never quite so lovely as when it's photographed from the moon

By Jeffrey Kluger
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