Tag: Earth

Earth and Venus Grew up as Rambunctious Planets What doesn't stick comes around: Using machine learning and simulations of giant impacts, researchers at the Lunar and...

Now Florida State University researchers have found that the extinction coincided with a sudden spike and subsequent drop in the ocean's oxygen content. Their...

An international research team, including researchers from the University of Michigan, is proposing that increasing day length on the early Earth may have boosted...

'Snowball Earth' is the most extreme climate event in Earth's history, when it was completely engulfed in ice. The theory of its existence has...

Studies demonstrate that byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and other soil parasites, increase...

Researchers from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and collaborators have discovered dramatic changes in the chemistry and composition of Sargassum due to anthropogenic emissions of...

Every year, our planet encounters extraterrestrial dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting...

Carbon on Earth, the ultimate journey. We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research...

Comets delivered carbon to rocky planets, and an icy visitor from the edge of our solar system hurtled past Earth in early 2016 to...

Earth's cataclysmic past is a fact. Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our...

The ratio of volatile elements in Earth's mantle suggests that virtually all of the planet's life-giving carbon came from a collision with an embryonic...