A new study suggests that Pluto and other large Kuiper belt objects started out with liquid oceans which have been slowly freezing over time.
The accretion of new material during Pluto’s formation may have generated enough heat to create a…
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Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon’s strange asymmetry
The Earth‐Moon system’s history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars‐sized body collided with the proto‐Earth.
Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision and retained enough heat to become…
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Drones Map High Plateaus Basin in Moroccan Atlas to Understand Human Evolution
Researchers from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) have been using drones to create high-resolution aerial images and topographies to compile maps of the High Plateaus Basin in Moroccan Atlas.
The study aims…
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The Kerguelen Oceanic Plateau Sheds Light on the Formation of Continents
How did the continents form? Although to a certain extent this remains an open question, the oceanic plateau of the Kerguelen Islands may well provide part of the answer, according to a French-Australian team led by the Géosciences Environnement…
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Coal-burning in Siberia led to climate change 250 million years ago
A team of researchers has provided the first-ever direct evidence that extensive coal burning in Siberia is a cause of the Permo-Triassic Extinction, the Earth’s most severe extinction event.
For this study, the international team led by…
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Scientists Take a Page From Deep Space to Study Deep Earth
Using a new technique originally designed to explore the cosmos, scientists have unveiled structures deep inside the Earth, paving the way towards a new map revealing what Earth’s interior looks like.
Similar to the way doctors use ultrasounds…
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Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetime
Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time – a discovery that could teach us more about the early universe.
Knowing the lifetime of neutrons is key to understanding the formation of elements after the…
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Researchers unlock clues to a dramatic chapter of Earth’s geological history
Imagine Earth completely covered in ice. While it’s hard to picture all of today’s oceans and land masses obscured with glaciers, such an ice-covered version of the planet was not so far-fetched millions of years ago.
Lasting from…
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Remixed mantle suggests early start of plate tectonics
New Curtin University research on the remixing of Earth’s stratified deep interior suggests that global plate tectonic processes, which played a pivotal role in the existence of life on Earth, started to operate at least 3.2 billion years…
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Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant planets
Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including a critical climate component – the presence of airborne dust.
The researchers suggest that planets with significant airborne dust –…
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