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Scientists Just Made a 1.75 Billion-Year-Old Discovery About the Origin of Life
Newly-discovered 1.75 billion-year-old bacteria fossils shed new light on the Great Oxygenation Event, which led to the emergence of complex life.
Anomalies Deep Inside Earth Are Wreckage of Crashed Alien World, Scientists Propose
The long-lost remnants of the planet Theia are far beneath our feet.
Traces of Earth's Core Were Found In the Arctic and Scientists Don't Know Why
“We know very little about Earth's core, other than that it exists."
Scientists Found Microplastics Deep Inside a Cave Closed to the Public for Decades
A Missouri cave that virtually nobody has visited since 1993 is contaminated by high levels of plastic pollution, scientists found.
A Major Climate System Will Collapse Decades Ahead of Schedule and Unleash Devastation, Scientists Predict
The collapse would result in natural disasters and turn Western Europe into Alaska, scientists warn in new research.
Scientists Find ‘Mountains’, Widespread Structures Near Earth’s Core
The core of our planet could be surrounded by the warped remnants of an ancient sunken ocean floor, a new study says.
Species-Ending Asteroids Hit Earth More Often Than We Realized, NASA Research Suggests
NASA Goddard Chief Scientist James Garvin's controversial findings suggest that some past asteroid impacts were a lot bigger than we realized.
Earth's Life-Nourishing Water Came From Interstellar Space, Scientists Find
Earth’s water, the key ingredient for life as we know it, likely originated many billions of years ago on dust grains in interstellar space.
Olympic Pool-Sized Asteroid Has ‘Very Small Chance of Impacting Earth’, NASA Says
Newly-discovered asteroid 2023DW has a 1-in-625 chance of colliding with Earth in 2046, according to current estimates.
There's Another Core Within Earth's Core, Scientists Discover
The innermost inner core (IMIC) “could be a fossilized record of a significant global event from the past,” scientists say.
Earth's Core May Be Causing Strange 'Anomalies', Study Suggests
Deep inside the Earth, something strange is happening that scientists are trying to explain.
Scientists Discover Hidden Zone of Earth 100 Miles Beneath Surface
A previously unknown layer of partially-molten rock extends below much of the planet's surface, and could illuminate mysteries in plate tectonics.