Chinese scientists have discovered a remarkable material in lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission. This finding ...

Planet Earth will once again witness the passing by of several massive asteroids in the coming days. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, five asteroids will fly by Earth between October 26 ...

Situated between the mantle and the inner core, the Earth's outer core is a liquid layer of the Earth's core. It is mostly made up of iron and nickel, with little amounts of silicon and oxygen ...

This year is on course to be the hottest on record, with an average global surface temperature more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. But there is some better news: the overall amount of ...

The climate models suggest that annually injecting 5 million tons of synthetic diamond dust into the atmosphere could potentially cool the Earth by 1.6°C over 45 years. However, the researchers ...

New science experiments for NASA are set to launch aboard the ... to antibiotics is as much of a concern for astronauts in space as it is for humans on Earth. Research determined that the impacts of ...

A directory and analysis of the open source ecosystem in the areas of climate change, sustainable energy, biodiversity and natural resources. https://docs.getgrist ...

A meteorite four times the size of Mount Everest may have helped life to thrive after it smashed into Earth, research suggests ... into coastal areas. The top layer of the ocean boiled off ...

Based on their studies of the layers, Lowe and Byerly estimated that between 3.5 billion and 3.2 billion years ago, an object larger than the dino killer struck Earth at least once every 15 ...

Scientists paint a compelling picture of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed into Earth 3.26 billion years ... Heat from the impact caused the topmost layer of the ocean to boil off ...

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Credit: Peter Reid, The University of Edinburgh. The magnetic field that cocoons Earth, shielding us from the sun’s most dangerous rays, has not always been so stable. About 41,000 years ago ...