NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, expected to launch in July 2020, will land in Jezero crater, pictured here. The image was taken by instruments on NASA’s…
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While the COVID-19 virus pandemic is forcing everybody to stay at home, we bring you these beautiful views from space of the Dutch tulip fields…
New Unified Geologic Map of the Moon with shaded topography from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA). This geologic map is a synthesis of six…
Researchers present new evidence that the deoxygenation of the ocean wiped out biodiversity during one of the “Big Five” mass extinctions in Earth’s history –…
Different layers within the Earth have differing compositions and densities. Credit: © 2020 Kelvinsong – CC BY-SA 3.0 In an effort to investigate conditions found…
Earth’s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers at UC Davis and Aarhus University, Denmark. The new study suggests heavier iron isotopes migrate…
In this image, captured on February 22, 2019, the river cuts from left to right in the image before plunging over Victoria Falls – visible…
A look inside the Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE). This machine was used to grow nanowires with hexagonal silicon-germanium shells. The emission from this…
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…
San Rafael Waterfall on November 28, 2012. Surrounded by lush vegetation and rare butterflies, the San Rafael Waterfall was one of the most captivating landscapes…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
Artist’s rendering of Ikaria wariootia. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian. A team…
(Click image for full view.) The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Kuwait in the Middle East. With a total area of around 17 800…
Tropical forest ecosystems are an important part of the global carbon cycle as they take up and store large amounts of CO2. It is however…
Herds of herbivores, such as horses, preserve the permafrost — even under strong global warming. Credit: Pleistocene Park New Mitigation Strategy Bears Great Potential Permafrost…
Recent seafloor drilling has revealed that the ‘hidden continent’ of Zealandia — a region of continental crust twice the size of India submerged beneath the…
The majority of the bones found at the site investigated, in the Russian Plains, are from mammoths. A total of 51 lower jaws and 64…
Japan’s risk of giant tsunamis may have grown when the angle of a down-going slab of ocean crust declined. In this image the ocean crust…
In this image, captured on July 27, 2019, sea ice can be seen in the waterways of the Canadian Archipelago, as well as broken-up sea…
The Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen new research suggests. Credit: UNM Scientists Find Earth and Moon Not…