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The search for life beyond the solar system is heating up. Though biosignatures around super-Earth K2-18b remain unconfirmed, ...
How can identifying land on exoplanets help scientists better understand whether an exoplanet could harbor life? This is what ...
An international study led by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona ...
This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.
Deep beneath the surface of the Earth, there is a massive reservoir of water, estimated to contain three times the amount of ...
A strange menagerie of creatures living off methane have been found in the darkest depths of the Pacific Ocean.
And no, we’re not talking about sharks. It’s the depths of the ocean, an impenetrably dark and crushing place where, somehow, ...
What looks like an ordinary mountain road is anything but. Somewhere along that route, without warning, you pass from redwood ...
Discovery of deep-sea chemosynthesis-based communities suggests more life forms exist in unexplored ocean depths, according to a study by Chinese researchers ...
Month-long Pacific expedition uncovers vast colonies of exotic creatures oblivious to sunlight drawing energy from hidden ...
Marine heatwaves are no longer rare outliers. Their global frequency has jumped six fold since the 1980s, and they are ...
Scientists have discovered a massive hidden water reservoir 700 km beneath Earth's surface, possibly holding more H₂O than ...