The KidWind Wind Experiment Kits from Vernier Science Education were recently named a winner in the Secondary Education category of the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024. This ...

Fossils and genetics are starting to point to life emerging surprisingly soon after Earth formed, when the planet was ...

Two bands of radiation called the Van Allen belts encircle Earth. After a May 2024 solar superstorm, two more showed up between those belts.

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

What if growing food on Mars could revolutionize agriculture on Earth? NASA’s groundbreaking space farming experiments aim to ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first ...

Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy F or centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other ...

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A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

a planetary scientist at the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo who wrote a News & Views article accompanying the Nature paper. Before the mission visited Bennu, scientists knew that the ...

A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...