This is great news for anyone hoping for extraterrestrial life, as it significantly extends past estimates of how long Earth can maintain a functioning biosphere – our only data for this in the ...

In this diagram, the red lines represent the edges of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust. For example, iron is mined from the Earth's crust in quarries. It is a finite resource ...

According to NASA, “without this protection, Earth’s biosphere might not exist as it does today, or would at least be limited to the subsurface”. Once outside the magnetosphere’s ...