Science with Sam: Are there volcanoes in space?
11 May 2021
From cataclysmic supervolcanos on Earth to ice plumes on Enceladus, the solar system is a wildly volcanic place. This is your guide.
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US election 2020: Trump's impact on the environment, health and space
21 October 2020
Whatever the outcome of the US presidential election, Donald Trump is likely to have a lasting impact on the nation's health, environmental regulations and space exploration
The amazing Antarctic discovery that could tell us how Earth was made
27 May 2020
Explorers trawling the polar ice have finally unearthed a trove of precious, iron-rich space rocks that might help crack the puzzle of how our planet took shape
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs caused massive global warming
24 May 2018
The asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago caused dramatic climate change, which could mean we are underestimating how much the planet will warm in the coming centuries
The worst mass extinction may have begun with mass sterilisation
7 February 2018
There seems to have been a surge in ultraviolet radiation during the Permian extinction 252 million years ago, and it might have left plants infertile rather than kill them
Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe
25 October 2017
Evidence of asteroid impacts and other extreme events on Earth can prove elusive. Michael Rampino reveals what he's found in his latest book
Geese-like birds seem to have survived the dinosaur extinction
23 October 2017
A bird group named the Vegaviidae, which resembled modern loons and geese, is the first identified with members that lived before and after the Cretaceous extinction
The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself
11 October 2017
Plate tectonics is a slow-grind drama with some dramatic plot twists – these scenarios show how Earth might look in 250 million AD
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
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
