Space rocks crashed on Earth containing compounds formed billions of years ago. Spaceships fancy fancy in the air but explode when they touch down too quickly. And sometimes, the iguana falls from the tree and the belly of the ground, settling on the ground. Here is a list of seven …
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We know that Mars was once wetter than it is now, but questions about when water formed and evaporated are more difficult to answer. Now a new study suggests that there was water on the Red Planet about 4.4 billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It is based …
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Astronomers have discovered six galaxies trapped in the cosmic “spider’s web” of a supermassive black hole immediately after the Big Bang, according to research published Thursday that could help explain the evolution of these mystical monsters. The black holes that emerged early in the history of the universe are believed …
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Water occupies 70 percent of the earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a long scientific debate. The puzzle was solved a step closer Thursday after a French team reported in the magazine Science they had identified which space …
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How did Earth’s tectonic plates form? You might think that this would be an easy question to answer, considering that we are now trying to pin down the details of when it happened, and if there is tectonic activity on the Moon. But our knowledge of how this planetary mechanism …
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