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Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system’s potential for life was widespread

ASTRONOMY
It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past...

5.6 magnitude earthquake shakes buildings in Taiwan, as a series of temblors hits the island

EARTHQUAKES
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing little damage but possibly...

The oceanic plate between Arabian and Eurasian continental plates is breaking away

EARTH
An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the...

Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032

ASTRONOMY
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists put the odds of a strike...

The red planet’s hot again, cold again history: Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars’ atmosphere

ASTRONOMY
The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now,...

Juno mission spots most powerful volcanic activity on Io to date

ASTRONOMY
Even by the standards of Io, the most volcanic celestial body in the solar system, recent events observed on the Jovian moon are extreme. Scientists...

Dead Sea an ‘ecological disaster’, but no one can agree how to fix it

EARTH
An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international...

Will the US get to Mars quicker if it drops or delays plans to visit the moon?

ASTRONOMY
The Artemis program has been NASA's best chance to get "boots on the moon" again. But with the new US administration taking guidance from...

Large magma bodies found beneath dormant volcanoes, surprising scientists

EARTH
New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over...

Super-Earth discovery reveals an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life

ASTRONOMY
Thirty years after the discovery of the first exoplanet, astronomers have detected more than 7,000 of them in our galaxy. But there are still...

Moon is not as ‘geologically dead’ as previously thought, new study reveals

ASTRONOMY
Scientists have studied the moon's surface for decades to help piece together its complex geological and evolutionary history. Evidence from the lunar maria (dark,...

Unveiling Japan’s geological history through volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

EARTH
The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which we are living. These...
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