Rapid cooling of planet’s core may lead to earlier shut-down of crucial tectonic processes © Getty Images / De Agostini Picture Library A critical tectonic process between the core and surface layers may be shut down earlier than anticipated The Earth’s molten interior is cooling faster than expected, which could turn the planet into a cold, inactive world similar to neighboring Mercury and Mars sooner than previously thought, researchers have warned...

Illustration of Mars and the Sun © pixabay / GooKingSword Former NASA director James Green says the two planets could be ‘terraformed’ using shields to protect them from the Sun Building a magnetic shield between the Sun and Mars could protect the planet from solar particles that erode its fragile atmosphere, eventually making it terraform itself to better suit humans, NASA’s former director has said...

Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum said Wednesday that the Taliban are now trapped in the north and will not be able to flee that part of the country and that security forces will crackdown on the militants...

Apparently warning politicians critical of him, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday said that as an elected president of the country he wouldn’t allow anyone except forces to use force...