just beneath our feet by ever improving their techniques and adding new technologies. These subterranean realms in the mantle may unlock the Earth’s past and perhaps its future.

Located approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth, it is the Milky Way's most ... The final image reveals approximately 200 million stars and extends six times the apparent diameter of ...

However, it's not the driest desert on Earth. That title goes to Dead Vlei ... Dead Vlei sees less than 10mm of rain each year. The white clay pan floor of Dead Vlei consists of dry, cracked ...

The light reaching your eyes tonight left Andromeda 2.5 million years ago. At that time, early human ancestors, Homo habilis, had just begun making stone tools on Earth. That means when ... history ...

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The Wollemi Pine’s bark looks like bubbling chocolate—but its real secret? It’s a 200-million-year-old survivor from the age ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could ... The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

As the demand for cleaner, more efficient energy sources continue to grow, the moon may light the way to fuel life on Earth ... for billions of years, the moon’s regolith, its powdery, soil-like ...

Aside from Earth, astronomers have found water ... for life was already in place in the universe between 100 million and 200 million years after the Big Bang, our simulations show that water ...