By drilling over half a mile into uplifted mantle rock beneath the Atlantic, scientists have recovered one of the most complete windows into Earth’s hidden interior ever obtained.
These altered, hydrogen-producing rocks behave like natural…
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Boiling Oceans? New Study Suggests Violent Geology on Icy Moons – SciTechDaily
- Boiling Oceans? New Study Suggests Violent Geology on Icy Moons SciTechDaily
- The Secret Busy Lives of Small Icy Moons Nautilus | Science Connected
- Formation of oceans within icy moons could cause the waters to boil Ars Technica
- Saturn’s…
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Close brush with 2 hot stars millions of years ago left a mark just beyond our solar system | CU Boulder Today
Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth’s sun. They left behind a trace in the clouds of gas and dust that swirl just beyond our solar system—almost like the scent of perfume after someone has…
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An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon
The catastrophic collision that forged the moon, and marked one of the most consequential events in Earth’s early history, may have been triggered not by a distant interloper, but by a sibling world that grew up right next door, according to a…
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Scientists Chart Mars’ Vast River Networks First Time
Billions of years ago, it rained on Mars. The water collected in valleys and rivers, filled and spilled over the rims of craters, and was funneled into canyons, perhaps even making its way to a large Martian ocean.
On Earth, the areas…
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