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Bizarre squid relative found in Wyoming is unlike anything seen before
14+ hour, 50+ min ago (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...
The sun may have swallowed a planet — and left behind a fingerprint: Study
23+ hour, 22+ min ago (13+ words) Researchers could help explain the sun’s internal structure and its depleted lithium abundance....
The Sun’s Biggest Sunspots Could Unleash Superflares, Study Finds
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A solar day on Mars lasts 24 hours and 39 minutes, giving it a rhythm remarkably close to Earth’s. On most of the Moon, roughly two weeks of sunlight are followed by two weeks of darkness, as exposed surface temperatures climb toward 127°C and then fall toward −173°C—with no atmosphere to create twilight or soften the transition.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1505+ words) A Martian sol closely matches an Earth day, while most lunar sites endure about two weeks of daylight and two weeks of night. Rotation, orbit and atmosphere explain why. By The Long View · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 11, 2026 · How…...
The Moon may have formed intact just hours after a giant collision
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (781+ words) Scientists have discovered that the Moon-forming collision may have depended heavily on how hot and physically strong early Earth and Theia were. New simulations found that some impacts create the familiar disk of debris that later becomes the Moon, while…...
Ole Miss, Texas A&M Engineering Partner to Fuel Martian Exploration
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (831+ words) New study turns carbon dioxide into rocket-fueling methane with less waste OXFORD, Miss. – As NASA prepares to send humans to Mars as early as the 2030s, University of Mississippi researchers are working on one of the key questions: How will they…...
Scientists May Have Cracked the Mystery of the Moon’s Unequal Hemispheres
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (608+ words) Chang’e-6 samples suggest the Moon’s two very different sides may have formed when uneven heating drove magma from one hemisphere to the other. The Moon presents two dramatically different faces. Its Earth-facing hemisphere is rich in dark volcanic plains, while…...
800 million years old - Scientists discover 'fingerprints' of supercontinent Gondwana in ancient rocks
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....
The Ancient Cosmic Disasters That Shaped Earth's History
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (1207+ words) Earth may look stable from the ground, but its history has been repeatedly rewritten by events arriving from space. Asteroids, planet-sized bodies, and enormous showers of extraterrestrial debris have smashed into our planet, melted crust, altered environments, and sometimes transformed…...
Media Alert: Low-level airplane and helicopter flights to resume scanning geology over southern, central New Mexico
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (261+ words) RESTON, Va. — The U.S. Geological Survey plans low-level flights by airplane and helicopter over southern and central New Mexico to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey began in March and will continue through mid-October, weather and wildfire restrictions…...