Analysis finds that the planet’s protective shield was in place by at least 3.7 billion years ago, as early life arose.
High in the Canadian Arctic on Baffin Island, beneath 10 meters of water and many more of mud, sits a refrigerated archive of Earth’s past life.
Our universe is governed by four fundamental forces. At least that’s what physicists have long thought.
Explorers and scientists are on the trail of legendary ‘creature’ Bigfoot in the forests of Oregon.
Missions to Mars and beyond will take months or longer, so some creative strategies will be necessary to make sure that astronauts stay hale and hearty!
A three-week search turned up intriguing clues.
The scientist created what he calls a “Martian chamber”, with the exact conditions as the Red Planet.
Robotic junk collector will be first mission to remove item of debris from orbit
Saturn’s tiny, frozen moon Enceladus is a strange place. Just 300 miles across, the moon is thought to have an outer shell of ice covering a global ocean 20 miles deep, encasing a rocky core. Slashed across Enceladus’ south pole are four straight, parallel fissures or “tiger stripes” from which water erupts. These fissures aren’t quite like anything else in the Solar System.
Ancient pieces of amber found to contain dinosaur feathers riddled with louse-like insects
