After a century of study, physicists have theories — but they’re still not 100% sure.
The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.
Scientists have identified a rocky outer planet in a system where a gas giant was expected. The discovery challenges ...
When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...
Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.
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Asteroid samples suggest the building blocks of life formed in icy conditions at the dawn of the solar system
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu and ...
Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...
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