Ancient Crater Lakes May Have Provided Ideal Conditions for Earth’s Earliest Oxygen-Breathing Life
Researchers have discovered stromatolites — layered structures formed by microbial communities — inside a 42,000-year-old asteroid crater in…
NASA-developed AI Could Help Track Harmful Algae
NASA scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool to take on a longstanding challenge in ocean waters. In…
NASA says a bus-size asteroid just flew closer than the moon
A small asteroid flew past Earth on Monday. It came closer than the moon, but NASA confirmed that…
Seismic warning — Seas and storms may raise quake risks, study warns
That extra water does more than reshape coastlines. Researchers say higher sea levels increase hydrostatic pressure beneath the…
Moon is getting farther away from Earth each year, report finds
(NewsNation) — With the Artemis II mission in the rear mirror, new information has emerged about how far…
An astronaut aboard the ISS has captured a fireball in the atmosphere
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An image showing the cupola inside the ISS. NASA has recently unveiled an image…
Great Balls of Fire – NASA Science
The outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere, the thermosphere and exosphere, are relatively busy places. In these layers, tens…
Spacecraft to probe how Earth fends off raging solar winds
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft is set to blast off Tuesday to investigate what happens when extreme winds and…
On This Day | In 2021, China becomes the third country to safely land a rover on Mars – SCMP archive
Beijing joins Mars club after ‘nine minutes of terror’ By William Zheng This article was first published on…
Scientists uncover the largest coral reef expansion in 100 million years
In the (very warm, tropical) waters between Australia and Southeast Asia lies an important piece of Earth’s history.…
When the asteroid killed the dinosaurs: Blow-by-blow account
Read this blow-by-blow account of when the asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Image via Geralt/ Pixabay. Some 66 million…
Ancient Earth Repeatedly Thawed during Catastrophic Ice Ages, New Research Suggests
Earth experienced extreme climate swings during the Neoproterozoic epoch (one billion to 538.8 million years ago), including the…