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There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.
Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...
From imaging every point on the planet daily to leveraging AI and hyperspectral data, Ashley unpacks Planet’s mission to make global change visible, accessible, and actionable.
The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.
A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...
Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within the National Oceanic ...
Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity ...
Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.
Earth and space mingle in stunning ways for the 2025 Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest. From the “geological ...
Although these two tools have a similar look and we  often use them interchangeably in the garden, a gardening shovel and ...
While the tetrapods initially still needed water to reproduce, the evolution of the egg and internal fertilisation led to the first truly terrestrial vertebrates. Some of these animals, known as the ...
These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.