A solar storm could knock out navigation and communications systems, caushing satellites to crash into each other.

On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, 1 meter in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere near the Philippines later that day, ...

The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a 1,340-pound (610-kilogram) probe into Didymos’ moon at a speed of approximately 14,000 ...

The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2100 may be enough to trigger a sixth mass extinction, a new study suggests. The huge spike in CO2 levels over the ...

Reprinted from: Natural catastrophes during Bronze Age civilisations: archaeological, geological, astronomical and cultural perspectives / edited by Benny J. Peiser, Trevor Palmer and Mark E. Bailey.

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