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'Microlightning' between water droplets could have sparked life on Earth. Here's how
Four billion years ago, Earth was a lifeless world, but a dynamic one. Crashing waves, rushing streams, and roaring ...
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This newly found super-Earth might have blown off its own atmosphere
A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.
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Proxima Centauri: The closest star to Earth is extremely violent
Astronomers used ALMA to observe Proxima Centauri and found frequent, intense flares that could destroy atmospheres of nearby ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
Researchers with the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have successfully used Earth's ...
Earth’s oceans weren’t always blue, scientists say
But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...
Earth losing fresh water and may have hit irreversible tipping point due to climate change
Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than ...
The closest potentially Earth-like exoplanet probably can't host life
Only a few years ago, astronomers heralded the discovery of a rocky world circling the sun 's closest space neighbor, Proxima ...
It Rains Deep Inside Planets – And That Could Rewrite How We Understand Alien Worlds
What if water and hydrogen don’t stay separated inside planets like Earth and Neptune? New research from UCLA and Princeton ...
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Scientists redid an experiment that showed how life on Earth could have started. They found a new possibility
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