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After eons underground, it was discovered by accident. Within a couple of decades, it was already under threat.

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Australia’s ancient rocks are acting like natural clocks, revealing how landscapes changed over billions of years through ...

How did Earth become a planet covered in oceans? A meteorite discovery reveals a new origin story that challenges everything ...

The Aravalli Hills may appear low and worn today, but they represent one of the oldest surviving mountain systems on Earth.

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.