The hottest place ever recorded on Earth's surface was 2370°C
13 September 2017
When a rock from space crashed to ground 38 million years ago, it briefly heated the impact zone to 2370°C, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth’s crust
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Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth in closest fly-by since 1890
4 September 2017
A 4.4-kilometre-wide space rock whizzed past Earth on its closest orbit in over a century. This asteroid won’t get this close again until after 2500
Uninhabitable Earth? In fact, it’s really hard to fry the planet
12 July 2017
A controversial article says we’re heading for the worst-case warming scenarios. But while we can’t rule out extreme warming, it’s not our most likely future
Why Morocco loves its meteorites
30 June 2017
Why have more space rocks been recovered in Morocco than in other countries of a similar size? It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day
