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Earth’s water is older than the sun: Likely originated as ices that formed in...
Water was crucial to the rise of life on Earth and is also important to evaluating the possibility of life on other planets. Identifying the original source of Earth’s water is key to understanding...
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The discovery of new bones from a large land mammal that lived about 48...
Pictured here are two jaws from anthracobunids recovered from 48 million year old sediments next to a horse skull. The study found that anthracobunids were an ancient relative of horses, rhinos, and...
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Oceans Arrived Early to Earth Via Meteorites
In this illustration of the early solar system, the dashed white line represents the snow line — the transition from the hotter inner solar system, where water ice is not stable (brown) to the outer...
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Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters deep underground around the world: Waters could...
A team of scientists has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometers beneath Earth’s surface in rock fractures in Canada, South Africa and Scandinavia. Common in Precambrian...
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Nearly half the systems crucial to stability of planet compromised
Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view of an international team of 18...
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Rosetta Comet ‘pouring’ more water into space
There has been a significant increase in the amount of water “pouring” out of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the comet on which the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander touched down in November 2014. The...
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More evidence for groundwater on Mars
Scientists investigated the Equatorial Layered Deposits (ELDs) of Arabia Terra in Firsoff crater area, Mars, to understand their formation and potential habitability. On the plateau, ELDs consist of...
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Missing link in evolution of complex cells discovered
In a new study, published in Nature, a research team led from Uppsala University in Sweden presents the discovery of a new microbe that represents a missing link in the evolution of complex life. The...
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Liquid water on Mars: NASA confirms evidence
Dark, narrow streaks on Martian slopes such as these at Hale Crater are inferred to be formed by seasonal flow of water on contemporary Mars. The streaks are roughly the length of a football...
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Although boiling, water does shape Martian terrain
Comparison of morphologies formed by the flow of liquid water on Earth and on Mars. Credit: Marion Massé At present, liquid water on Mars only exists in small quantities as a boiling liquid, and only...
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