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In many rivers, only a small amount of streamflow remains for nature after water is diverted for hydropower production. In light of climate change and biodiversity loss, this is having increasingly serious consequences. Researchers from WSL,...
Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks—plains of streaked gray stone on the eastern shore...

Discovery of giant planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many...

Massive Jupiter storm churns ammonia deep into planet’s atmosphere

A pair of planetary scientists at the University of California, working with a colleague from the California Institute of Technology, has discovered that a...

Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return from Mars. The University...

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

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

The new Mars landing approach: How we’ll land large payloads on the Red Planet

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he...

Scientists discover planet orbiting closest single star to our sun

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), astronomers have discovered an exoplanet orbiting Barnard's star, the closest single star to our...

Rocks collected on Mars hold key to water and perhaps life on the planet: Researchers urge bringing them back to Earth

Over the course of nearly five months in 2022, NASA's Perseverance rover collected rock samples from Mars that could rewrite the history of water...

Scientists’ research answers big question about our system’s largest planet

New discoveries about Jupiter could lead to a better understanding of Earth's own space environment and influence a long-running scientific debate about the solar...

One of the best fossil eyes on the planet

About 11 to 16 million years ago, in the middle of the Miocene period, more than 100 caddisflies met their end in a lake. Over...

A Jupiter-sized planet has been hiding a big secret: A 350,000-mile-long tail

WASP-69b is having a hot girl summer that never ends. The huge gaseous exoplanet, roughly the size of Jupiter and approximately 160 light years...

Mars photo shows planet in true color, like you’ve never seen it before

Twenty years ago, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express embarked on a journey to the Red Planet. Today, we’re celebrating this milestone with a...

New planet discovered has a massive ocean and it’s not too far from Earth

The scientific community has discovered a new planet. It is located 245 light-years away from Earth and has been named TOI-733b. Its size is...

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