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It's a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system and are searching the atmospheres of the most promising worlds for chemicals that might be byproducts of life.
Did comets seed life on Earth? It's unlikely, a new study from the University of Cambridge says. It would have been a very rare occurrence.
Since February 1998 – when it surpassed the previous record-holder, NASA’s outer-planet explorer Pioneer 10 – Voyager 1 has been the farthest human-made object in existence. Even now, more than 48 years since launch, the probe is still sending back ...
As today’s oceans lose oxygen, Alaskan rocks trace a similar decline that began millions of years before the end-Triassic mass extinction. Dinosaurs survived the end-Triassic mass extinction 201 million years ago,
The March 9 event at Rayback Collective in Boulder, open to all, invites scientists and non-scientists to gather for discussions of climate research It started, as good things often do, with CAKE. In this case, that’s the Climate Action Knowledge ...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is below Earth, since space is present in every direction?
