Fossils found in China may add a new branch to the human family tree
This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...
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Scientists Who Found Mysterious ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor Plan a New Expedition, Hoping to Settle Disputes
Last year, the team made headlines when it published a paper describing how metal lumps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean ...
50 Times People Found Such Strange Things On Google Earth, They Had To Share Them (New Pics)
One of the most powerful online tools at your disposal is the sprawling Google Earth project, which allows you to use ...
ScienceAlert on MSN3d
New Kind of Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Discovered
An object we thought belonged to the most common category of planet in the galaxy has turned out to be something we've never ...
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Earth is bombarded with rocks from space — but who gets to keep these ultimate antiques?
Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.
Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface.
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Sunken Worlds Discovered in Earth’s Mantle Create Confusion and Mystery
Geophysicists have found sunken worlds in the Earth’s mantle — the planet’s bulky middle ... often leaving geological remnants behind. Now, new imaging techniques have revealed similar leftovers far ...
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Two Mountains 100 Times Taller Than Mount Everest Discovered Deep Beneath Earth
According to the research, the new structures ... they travel through the Earth," explained Dr Duess' colleague Sujania Talavera-Soza. "Against our expectations, we found little damping in the ...
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Remains Of 90-Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered In Antarctica
Scientists just found evidence that Antarctica was a rainforest when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Some 90 million years ago, ...
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NASA: Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Came from the Moon
The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins another known lunar asteroid ...
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Earth’s biggest secret mountains 100x taller than Everest are discovered…but you’ll never get to climb them
MOUNT Everest has long been considered the tallest mountain on Earth, but new research reveals it might ... miles beneath the planet’s surface. Discovered at the boundary between Earth’s ...