The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

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A mineral grain from a meteorite preserved evidence that water was present on Mars 4.45 billion years ago, and it may have ...

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Some 77.6% of our planet’s land experienced drier conditions during the three decades leading up to 2020 compared to the ...

On Tuesday, a tiny, harmless asteroid was detected early before it was expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere over Siberia ...

A humpback whale traveled more than 8,000 miles — farther than the Earth’s diameter — in search of sex, a new study reveals.

A paradigm shift is taking place in fashion, with the old markers—exclusivity, luxury, aspiration—now being joined by widely ...

Recognizing the power of this growing movement, President Richard Nixon and Congress responded by creating the Environmental Protection Agency and enacting a wave of laws, including the Clean Air Act, ...

Water is fundamental to life on Earth, yet the origins of this vital resource remain a scientific puzzle. Researchers have long debated whether comets, asteroids, or both were the main contributors to ...

On Thursday, a group of German scientists—Helge Goessling, Thomas Rackow, and Thomas Jung—released a paper that attempts to ...