The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late 1700s through 1849 compared with 1850-1900 — the latter being what scientists have defined as the “preindustrial” baseline period used to assess the planet’s temperature change.

It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a stable magnetic field. Researchers who ran simulations of these atmospheric molecules escaping Earth found that more actually escape modern Earth, whose magnetic field is strong.

China shipped 13% more rare-earth products in November than in the preceding month, a sign that a more relaxed export regime is restoring flows of the critical minerals used in electric vehicles, weapons and high-tech manufacturing.

The 38-foot-wide space rock is projected to come to within just 123,000 miles of our planet, according to NASA.