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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

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Apollo astronauts might have found a piece of Earth on the moon

A 4 billion-year-old rock found on the moon may have originally come from our planet, and could be one of the oldest Earth rocks ever seen

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Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

Space

Moon craters reveal surprise rise in asteroid shrapnel pelting Earth

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Dickinsonia fossil

Life

In the beginning: The full story of life on Earth can finally be told

Features

Jura mountains

Earth

Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud

Regulars

We kill 60 billion chickens a year, and their bones get preserved by landfill

Environment

When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain

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sampling sand in Greenland

Earth

Huge 30-kilometre wide meteorite crater found under Greenland glacier

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Pulpit Rock, Norway

Earth

Timefulness review – our impulsive and pugnacious age needs geology

Culture

Fracking plant

Earth

Quakes prompt UK fracking operations to pause several times

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Grand Canyon

Earth

Weird rocks in Australia are a missing piece of the Grand Canyon

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Iceland landscape

Earth

Supercharged geothermal energy could power the planet

The next generation of geothermal plants will unlock more of Earth's bountiful, underground energy and could allow the technology to finally fulfil its promise

Features

Earth

Huge fossil-like scars of the Anthropocene mark walls of Russian mine

Regulars

Earth

Falling rocks can explode so hard that only nuclear weapons beat them

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Earth

Life may have begun on Earth 100 million years earlier than we thought

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Physics

Ancient natural nuclear reactors show how to store radioactive waste

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