Earth’s crust is way, way older than we thought0
- Earth Mysteries, From Around the Web
- April 30, 2021
Earth’s continents have been leaking nutrients into the ocean for at least 3.7 billion years, new research suggests.

Earth’s continents have been leaking nutrients into the ocean for at least 3.7 billion years, new research suggests.

The American space agency’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter has photographed the Perseverance rover.

Our hominin ancestor had bigger brains and probably went extinct with climate change. Who are we to judge?

Collins, known as the ‘forgotten astronaut’, kept command module flying while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon

The Pleistocene epoch, which started 2.6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago, was crucially important for our hominin ancestors.

One crater on Mars shows signs of an ancient glacier that melted from the top down.

That glow you see at sunrise or sunset is caused by cosmic dust. For decades astronomers thought it came from asteroids but now they’re not so sure

Space Mysteries: If we can find the answer, it may complete our understanding of space and time.

Radioactive dust deep beneath the ocean waves suggests that Earth is moving through a massive cloud left behind by an exploded star.