Photosynthesis changed Earth in powerful ways. When photosynthetic organisms appeared, it led to the Great Oxygenation Event.

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What is a brown dwarf star? These formations often defy classification, blurring the line between planets and stars.

"We found an overdensity of planets in this region, indicating a sharp transition between the barren Neptunian Desert and the more populated Neptunian Savanna." ...

A temporary “mini-moon” will whirl around Earth for about two months as our planet’s gravity captures a small asteroid in its orbit.

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"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.