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River belt discovery helps scientists understand ancient rivers

Long after a river has dried up, its channel belt lives on. Made up of swaths of sediment surrounding the river, channel belts, once hardened...

Asteroid samples contain ‘clues to origin of life’: Japan scientists

Asteroid dust collected by a Japanese space probe contains organic material that shows some of the building blocks of life on Earth may have...

Did meteorites bring life’s phosphorus to Earth?

Meteorites that crashed onto Earth billions of years ago may have provided the phosphorous essential to the biological systems of terrestrial life. The meteorites...

Antarctic glaciers losing ice at fastest rate in 5,500 years, finds study

At the current rate of retreat the vast glaciers, which extend deep into the heart of the ice sheet, could contribute as much as...

China plans to complete space station with latest mission

China is preparing to launch a new three-person mission to complete work on its permanent orbiting space station, the China Manned Space Agency said...

Volcanoes may have killed Venus with a runaway greenhouse

What turned Venus into hell? It could have simply been a steadily warming sun, but new research suggests that volcanoes may have played a...

A new earthquake warning system will prepare Canada for dangerous shaking

Large earthquakes can wreak enormous violence upon lives, livelihoods, infrastructure and the environment. High-density urban populations in the relatively small, seismically active areas of...

Ammonium fertilized early life on Earth

A team of international scientists — including researchers at the University of St. Andrews, Syracuse University and Royal Holloway, University of London — has...

Planet-forming disks evolve in surprisingly similar ways

A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analyzed the mass distribution of over 870...

NASA simulation suggests some volcanoes might warm climate, destroy ozone layer

A new NASA climate simulation suggests that extremely large volcanic eruptions called "flood basalt eruptions" might significantly warm Earth's climate and devastate the ozone...

Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars

The high efficiency, light weight and flexibility of the latest solar cell technology means photovoltaics could provide all the power needed for an extended...

Discovery of 30 exocomets in a young planetary system

For the past 30 years, the star β Pictoris has fascinated astronomers because it enables them to observe a planetary system in the process...

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