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Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...
Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...
K2-360 is a newly found planetary system with a super-dense planet, likely the core of a former larger world, shaped by ...
NASA has discovered a new world, named Gliese 12 b. It is roughly the size of Earth, lies in the habitable zone, and orbits every 12.8 days.
Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...
The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...
Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.
New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...
The Bay Sages heard from the Delta Astronomical Society (DAS) during its monthly meeting on Thursday. DAS Newsletter Editor ...
Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...