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Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...
Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on Earth first began.
With 10 times the mass of our planet, and spending only part of its orbit in the habitable zone, Kepler-725c is very different to Earth.
The event KMT-2020-BLG-0414 was detected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network, with the lensing star and its potentially future Earth-like planet, located within the Milky Way.
A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system ...
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought.
Earth May Have Once Had a Saturn-Like Ring, ... Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of any planet in our solar system. Its nine rings, which are mainly comprised of dust, ...
Despite having roamed the planet millions of years ago, thanks to advances in technology, dinosaurs aren’t as inscrutable today as they once were. And over the past decades, in addition to studying ...
Earth’s core consists of a solid iron-nickel ball rotating within a layer of liquid metal. But that ball may not be as simple as it seems: new research suggests the inner core contains its own ...