A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths ...

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Shape and symmetry help determine where a leaf lands — and if the tree it came from can recoup the leaf’s carbon as it decomposes.

In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers from Kyushu University report on the activity of sporadic E ...

Scientists analyzing Mars seismic data found evidence of vast quantities of liquid water 5-8km underground, enough to cover ...

There's many different layers to the Earth's atmosphere, but 75% of Earth's mass is actually going to be residing in the troposphere, where we are located. Also, we see all of Earth's weather occur in ...

New missions with seismometers are needed to map potential water layers across the rest of the planet. Future rovers or ...

But evaporation, freezing and rocks can’t quite account for all the water that must have covered Mars in the distant past. Calculations suggest the “missing” water is enough to cover the planet in an ...

Simba's Earth mattresses are decidedly old-school in their construction, and they're impressively eco-friendly too, as befits ...