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MIT geochemists offer compelling evidence that ancient sea sponges were Earth's first animals, emerging over 541 million ...

Perseverance rover data shows Jezero Crater once held a calm lake, leaving behind mudstones rich in organic-linked minerals.

At a certain point in Earth’s distant past, the planet’s assortment of organic molecules and compounds aligned to create the ...

What if a planet slammed into Earth? Could we survive it - or would we even notice it coming? In this lightning-fast Q&A, science takes on the bizarre, from planetary destruction to why there are no ...

How will NASA's upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) mission differentiate Earth-sized exoplanets from other ...

China's Three Gorges Dam has effectively changed Earth's axis by nearly an inch since it was built nearly 18 years ago, ...

Astronomers warn that Earth may be at risk from previously undetected asteroids co-orbiting near Venus. Hidden by the Sun’s ...

Beth is a 7th-grade Earth Science teacher at Hope Middle School in Pitt County. She is in her ninth year of teaching, ...

NASA is inviting the public to take part in 36 “citizen science” projects that let volunteers contribute to real scientific ...

We could be overlooking an entire population of asteroids that pose a threat to Earth on the very simple basis that they're extremely hard to see.

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