Earth’s Moon is among the strangest planetary bodies in our Solar System. Its orbit lies unusually far away from our planet, with a surprisingly large...
An international effort to find and catalogue the multitude of so-called near-Earth asteroids has reached a milestone: 15,000 discovered — with many...
A team of researchers led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found evidence that a comet hit the Earth at the same time a mysterious release of carbon...
The combination of seismic activity and water locked away at depth within Mars could be releasing sufficient hydrogen gas to support communities of microorganisms,...
Measurements of potassium in lunar and terrestrial rocks have disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of Earth’s sole natural satellite.
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In a new paper in the journal Nature Geoscience, researchers offer a new answer to a long-debated question: how did carbon-based life develop on Earth,...
A researcher’s proposal for an ESA mission to return to the Moon could lay the groundwork for a full-surface geological survey from a permanent lunar...
The Universe is 13.8 billion years old, while Earth formed 4.5 billion years ago. Some cosmologists think this time gap means that life on other planets...
According to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, rocks formed beneath the ocean floor by fast-spreading tectonic plates may...
Harmful algal bloom caused by nutrient pollution, Assateague island National Seashore, MD. Image credit: Eric Vance / U.S. EPA.
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Culex pipiens f. molestus, the mosquito species unique to the London Underground. Image credit: Walkabout12 / CC BY-SA.
When scientists examine the impact...
According to astronomers at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies, a near-Earth asteroid designated 2016 HO3 is currently following a stable...
More than 80 percent of the world and more than 99 percent of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies, according to a study and...
A new study modeling conditions in Europa’s global liquid ocean suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there.
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The four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth’s space...
An international team of researchers from Australia and the United Kingdom has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere...
Our planet could contain roughly 1 trillion microbial species, with only 0.001% now identified, says a duo of scientists at Indiana University.
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An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Gunther Korschinek from the Technical University of Munich, has detected radioactive iron-60 in samples...
Two international research teams have found evidence of a series of ‘near-Earth’ supernova explosions, which showered our planet with radioactive debris....
