Tag: Earth
Tiny satellites reveal water dynamics in thousands of northern lakes
Scientists at the Brown University used an army of small satellites and have shown that water levels in small lakes across northern Canada and...
Research finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history
According to Curtin scientists, ancient supercontinents framed and after that went into alternating cycles traversing hundreds of millions of years that included superoceans being gulped...
Earth’s oldest rock found on the Moon
Scientists may have just found the oldest intact Earth rock—on the moon. Scientists have discovered the rock decades ago by the Apollo 14 crew.
The Apollo...
Planetary collision that formed the moon made life possible on Earth
A new study by the Rice University scientists suggests that most of the Earth's essential elements of life such as carbon, nitrogen and other life-essential...
The brightest comet of the year will be visible this Sunday
On Sunday, Dec. 16, the comet named 46P/Wirtanen will make its 10 closest comet flybys of Earth in 70 years. And as scientists reported, you...
Global warming wiped out 95% of marine life 252 million years ago
A new study by the University of Washington has suggested that extreme global warming caused Earth's biggest ever mass extinction. The largest extinction in Earth's history...
What magnetic fields can tell us about life on other planets?
Earth has a magnetic field – it’s what makes compasses align north-south and lets us navigate the oceans. It also protects the atmosphere, and...
A dark matter hurricane is headed our way
As per a recent paper, the Earth is caught directly in the focus of a cosmic hurricane. A swarm of about 100 stars, joined...
Jupiter’s moon Europa may have large pointed spikes of ice on its surface
A team of researchers from Cardiff University has predicted Penitentes, large pointed spikes of ice, which is known on Earth and Pluto might be...