Lunar far side samples bolster theory that the moon was once covered in magma
A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...
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The spring equinox is almost here. What does that mean?
Spring gets its official start Thursday in the Northern Hemisphere with the arrival of the vernal equinox. But what does that ...
Live Science17h
4 tiny, Earth-like planets found circling 2nd-closest star system to us — and could be visited by future human generations
A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 billion light-years from Earth, putting them in ...
1st American robotic lunar rover set to land on the moon today
Colorado-based company Lunar Outpost's MAPP rover is poised to land today (March 6) near the lunar south pole aboard the private Athena moon lander.
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Planet revolutions and why the Earth needs leap years
For example, Mercury, being closest to the sun, takes just 88 Earth days to complete one orbit. On the other hand, Neptune, the farthest planet from the sun, takes about 165 Earth years!
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Sea ice levels drop to record lows on both poles as scientists issue warning
Fresh satellite data shows that sea ice at both the North and South Poles shrank to a combined extent of about ... Together, these conditions seem to be undoing some of the natural insulation that ...
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From black seadevil to doomsday fish, 5 deep sea animals that showed up on Earth’s surface for the first time in recent years
In 2013, a 5.4-meter-long oarfish washed up on a California beach, baffling scientists. A similar event occurred in 2017 in the Philippines, where fishermen found two oarfish near the shore—leading ...
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Odds of asteroid YR4 2024 hitting Earth in 2032 go up, then down again, in latest NASA analysis
An asteroid gaining notoriety for its potential to collide with Earth in 2032 was estimated Tuesday ... reduced the impact probability to 1.5%." It added, "NASA expects the impact probability ...
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 now unlikely to hit Earth — but scientists are ready for future threats
The latest calculations indicate that the asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is much less likely to hit Earth than earlier measurements ... to a still-worrying 1.5%. Asteroid lost 1 million kilograms ...