The first image here is not a bowl of spaghetti, though it may perhaps look like one. They are not ramen noodles nor elbow macaroni either. If one looks closely, the east coast of North America is ...

Father-Daughter Team Breaks Ground Decoding Mysterious 'Alien' Signal From Mars In one of the projects, NASA collaborated ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Geoscientists employed current-day stratigraphic, depositional and paleontological models, along with modern technological muscle to provide updated insights of the Cambrian period of the Grand Canyon ...

A new study challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth's ice ages. The research provides fresh insights into the ocean's role in climate during the ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease, two Mayo Clinic ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

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This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first emerged.

The key to unlocking the secrets of distant planets starts right here on Earth. Researchers at Tohoku University, the ...