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The science behind the life and times of the Earth’s salt flats

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Alaska Anchorage are the first to characterize two different types of surface water...

Here’s how NASA is planning to protect Earth from asteroids and comets

The large impact craters dotting our planet are powerful reminders that asteroids and comets strike the Earth from time to time. As often said,...

How did Earth get its water?

Our planet’s water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth’s formative years,...

Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert

An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency reported...

Tracing Earth’s past in prehistoric rock deposits

What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet's atmosphere was being oxygenated? By analyzing ancient dolomite (carbonate) deposits found...

Asteroid hits Earth hours after being spotted, meteor turns into ‘beautiful’ fireball over Europe

An asteroid hit Earth hours after it was discovered Monday, turning into a dazzling fireball that was spotted throughout Europe. Around 12:18 p.m. ET Sunday,...

How did Earth get its water?

Earth's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years, according...

NASA unveils ‘Mars’ habitat for year-long experiments on Earth

Four small rooms, a gym and a lot of red sand—NASA unveiled on Tuesday its new Mars-simulation habitat, in which volunteers will live for...

Researchers defend their theory that molecular oxygen existed on Earth 2.5 billion years ago

When did molecular oxygen, the gas that all large and complex forms of life on Earth today require to function, first appear on Earth? For...

Ancient magma reveals signs of life in zircons from ancient Earth

Zircon crystals, like a time capsule, can preserve traces of life hundreds of millions of years old in the form of biogenic carbon. Using...

Scientists discover a way Earth’s atmosphere cleans itself

Human activities emit many kinds of pollutants into the air, and without hydroxyl radicals (OH), many of these pollutants would keep aggregating in the...

New asteroid sample study offers further hints of space origin for the building blocks of life on Earth

How did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet Earth. Did life simply arise...

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