A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

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Credit: Thales Alenia Space / E.Briot ORLANDO, Fla. — Thales Alenia Space announced a contract worth nearly $900 million Jan. 30 to develop and deliver the Lunar Descent Element (LDE ...

And on Wednesday morning, the company revealed the near-Earth target for its flyby mission. AstroForge will fly toward a small, M-type asteroid found three years ago named 2022 OB5. It likely ...

About 66 million years ago, just before the mass extinction that wiped out the ... Paul Olsen, a professor of earth and environmental sciences at Columbia University who was not involved in the fossil ...

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A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away ... far as 2 astronomical units (300 million km/186 million miles — i.e ...