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![A close up image of the sun's surface with added magnetic field lines](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/7jayXJqMFEKziWvnBA8eMF-320-80.jpg)
Scientists finally acknowledge that they got their solar cycle predictions wrong, and that we are fast approaching the sun's explosive peak
By Harry Baker published
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has released a "revised prediction" for the current solar cycle, which states that the upcoming solar maximum will arrive sooner and be more explosive than they initially forecast — as Live Science previously reported.
![A fuzzy image of a comet's coma shaped like a pair of horns](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6R4QmtUhedsAJHGNdrUigL-320-80.jpg)
City-size comet racing toward Earth regrows 'horns' after massive volcanic eruption
By Harry Baker published
The cryovolcanic comet 12P/Pons–Brooks, which will make its closest approach to Earth next year, has re-sprouted its distinctive "horns" after its second major eruption in four months.
![illustration of earth's interior with the mantle, inner and outer core split into layers](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/PhHdLwHLYiagjyxMLaQBZ4-320-80.jpg)
What's inside Earth?
By Patrick Pester published
The center of Earth lies around 4,000 miles beneath our feet — but what lies beneath the outer crust and the inner core?
![The Earth's layers arranged like a Russian nesting doll in outer space](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/8oyp8YzygP5ZbwUsQNJN2K-320-80.jpg)
Earth's solid inner core is 'surprisingly soft' thanks to hyperactive atoms jostling around
By Harry Baker published
Atoms within the enormous ball of iron in Earth's inner core may move around much more than previously thought, which could explain recent findings about the core's surprising softness.
![A black and white image of the surface of Mars with a small twister on the horizon (circled)](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wH2c8u3TmfisnTY2Tz78nn-320-80.jpg)
Massive Martian 'dust devil' filmed by NASA's Perseverance rover is 5 times taller than the Empire State Building
By Harry Baker published
The Perseverance rover has captured footage of an unusually large twister, or "dust devil," moving across the Martian landscape. Based on images of the swirling storm, researchers estimate that it could be more than a mile tall.
![Dragon blood trees in rocky landscape, Homhil Protected Area, Socotra, Yemen.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KVAPMWUmkuFwNbKx5m73sZ-320-80.jpg)
15 places on Earth that look like alien planets
By Annie Corinne Shaink published
These stunning locations feel out of this world, but are actually right here on Earth.
![A sunset with a faint comet flying through the sky](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/r6sgK3zBVVojVoSxZp838n-320-80.jpg)
Green comet Nishimura has passed its closest point to Earth, and it won't be back for another 430 years
By Harry Baker published
The comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, will soon be slingshotted around the sun and back out toward the edge of the solar system where it will remain for centuries.
![James Webb Space Telescope in outer space.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ZiJAqQTXetp4qfM7YemRaA-320-80.jpg)
James Webb telescope could detect life on Earth from across the galaxy, new study suggests
By Harry Baker published
Researchers have shown that if the James Webb Space Telescope was pointed at Earth from a distant star, it could detect the signatures of intelligent life in our planet's atmosphere.
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