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Scientists Intrigued by "Negative Mass Anomaly" Under Surface of Mars
4+ hour, 54+ min ago (516+ words) Published Mar 27, 2026 11:57 AM EDT NASA's InSight Mars lander made an unusual discovery while probing the Red Planet's surface for seismic activity. After poring over years of data from the spacecraft, and comparing it to measurements taken by NASA's Viking landers…...
Rapid Space Launches Shifting the Chemistry of Earth's Atmosphere
2+ week, 4+ day ago (399+ words) Published Mar 9, 2026 4:47 PM EDT Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Space has never been more accessible than it is today. Launches have become an almost daily occurrence as companies and governments from around the world continue…...
There's a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for Antarctica's Waterfall of Blood
1+ mon, 4+ hour ago (302+ words) Published Feb 27, 2026 12:08 PM EST Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A seeming waterfall of blood in the Antarctic may sound like something from an HP Lovecraft story. But scientists say they've found a perfectly mundane explanation…...
Antarctica's Gravity Hole Growing Stronger, Scientists Find
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (274+ words) Published Feb 22, 2026 11:30 AM EST For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing "gravity holes," which are enormous depressions in the Earth's crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. As detailed in a new paper published in the…...
Scientists Astonished by Glimpse of Huge, Ancient Ocean on Mars
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (539+ words) Published Jan 24, 2026 8:15 AM EST Scientists have long suspected that Mars was once teeming with water, a tropical oasis with vast river systems that may have been able to support life billions of years ago. To get a better picture of…...
Scientists Uncover Secret Landscape Hiding Miles Below Antarctica's Ice
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (534+ words) Published Jan 18, 2026 12:00 PM EST By creating a new map of Antarctica's subterranean landscape, researchers have uncovered a vast topography of previously hidden hills, ridges, and even entire mountain ranges lurking miles beneath its frozen exterior. The findings, detailed in a…...
Doomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (486+ words) Published Dec 28, 2025 7:00 AM EST The Thwaites Glacier, an enormous shelf of ice in the Antarctic, has been given the ominous nickname of the "Doomsday Glacier" " because if it were to change collapse, it could have profound implications for the future…...
Scientists Say Huge Structures Inside Earth Are Related to the Origin of Life
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (539+ words) Published Nov 22, 2025 1:30 PM EST Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study published in…...
Scientists Discover Remnants of Cataclysmically Destroyed Planet That Became Earth
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (188+ words) Published Oct 26, 2025 9:45 AM EDT Before Earth, there was "proto Earth," a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all…...
Scientists Investigate Evidence of "Burrowing" Under Surface of Mars
5+ mon, 6+ day ago (522+ words) Published Oct 21, 2025 8:04 AM EDT Networks of narrow channels lining the surface of Martian dunes, called "gullies," have puzzled astronomers for decades. At first, researchers suggested they were formed by liquid water billions of years ago, around the time when the…...