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Christmas is the time for families to come together, and in the midst of the festive season, University of Leicester paleontologists have announced that they have reunited a family that has been separated for 150 million...
Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team which has used data from satellites to track changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Global warming is causing the Ice Sheet to melt...

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...

Recent volcanism on Mars reveals a planet more active than previously thought

A vast, flat, "featureless" plain on Mars surprised researchers by revealing a much more tumultuous geologic past than expected, according to a study led...

Why is Iceland so volcanic?

Iceland has been forged by the heat of the Earth's core. The molten rock that now sits 800 metres below the fishing village of Grindavik...

Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI’s help, we may know soon

Scientists have discovered a simple and reliable test for signs of past or present life on other planets—"the holy grail of astrobiology." In the journal Proceedings...

New image reveals secrets of planet birth

A spectacular new image released today by the European Southern Observatory gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using...

Astronomers find a planet that shouldn’t exist

When our sun reaches the end of its life, it will expand to 100 times its current size, enveloping the Earth. Many planets in...

A just world on a safe planet: First study quantifying Earth system boundaries

Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth, a new study published in the journal Nature...

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