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Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth’s rotation, but not enough to offset an even greater acceleration caused by changes in ...
Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...
They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...
Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...
Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...