Martian lava rocks shed light on critical period of red planet's history
No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...
The secret history of the Arctic and Antarctica
When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...
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Perseverance Mars rover finds 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on Red Planet's Silver Mountain
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover found a 'one-of-a-kind treasure' on the rim of Jezero Crater, a rock that could help reveal ...
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Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
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Clay mounds and hills found on Mars tell us more about water on the Red Planet
The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.
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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner, meteorite analysis suggests
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
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Newly discovered super-Earth orbits in and out of its star's habitable zone. Could life survive its extreme climate?
A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.
The red planet's hot again, cold again history: Explaining persistent hydrogen in Mars' atmosphere
The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for ...