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Venus Might Have Once Had a Moon. But the Hellish Planet Could Have Destroyed It
1+ week, 2+ day ago (300+ words) A new model suggests Venus could have swallowed a lost moon billions of years ago....
China's Zhurong Rover May Have Found Martian Crystals Filled With Pockets of Ancient Brine
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (343+ words) Zhurong just found a tantalizing geological clue....
Scientists Discovered a New Type of Rock Made Out of a Gemstone Mineral Inside a Martian Meteorite
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (898+ words) This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history. On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in…...
The Dinosaurs May Have Had Only Hours Before Extinction After the Asteroid Struck and Turned the Planet into a Global Furnace
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1001+ words) New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world. For the animals living on Earth 66 million years ago, the end may have begun in darkness. A six-mile-wide…...
These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth's Geological Secrets
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (491+ words) Plate boundaries are often sprawling zones of deformation rather than clean lines. On most classroom maps, Earth’s tectonic plates fit together like pieces of a neatly cut puzzle. But the real world doesn’t always follow our neat depiction. A global…...
The Largest Intact Meteorite on Earth Is Still Exactly Where It Landed. But Why No Crater?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1028+ words) Home → Features → Space & Astronomy → The Solar System → Asteroids, meteors & comets The Hoba meteorite smashed into the Earth, but look around it, and you won't see any crater. The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron…...
A Camper’s Google Maps Hunch Revealed a 390-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Crater
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (231+ words) A ring in Quebec’s wilderness turned out to be a rare cosmic scar....
Nickel Fingerprints Reveal What the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Made Of
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (541+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology The culprit may have been an unusually dry relic from the outer solar system. The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, vaporized…...
Earth’s Longest Volcanic Ridge May Be an Underwater Moving Hotspot
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (643+ words) The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic underwater landscape shaped by tectonic activity and volcanic processes. Among this landscape, the Ninetyeast Ridge is one of the most impressive…...
Earth’s Oldest Known Impact Crater May Have Been Found in the Australian Outback. It Hit Earth 3 Billion Years Ago
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (480+ words) Ancient crystals point to a 3-billion-year-old asteroid strike in Western Australia....