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Researchers have discovered 830-million-year-old microbes living inside a salt rock on Earth. Could the same occur on Mars?
No planet enters retrograde more frequently than Mercury, which does so 3-4 times each year. Here’s the scientific explanation for why.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth’s crust.
In the night sky for March of 2022, only stars and the Moon, not planets, will greet you. The real show, however, arrives just before dawn.
Like Mars today, Venus used to be a sci-fi superstar. Recent discoveries could re-ignite our interest in Earth’s “evil twin.”
You’ve got to know when to fight and when to laugh.
One book will gather all topics on the search for life in the Cosmos.
From astrobiology to geology, a Moon base could serve as a laboratory unlike anything on Earth.
Mercury, Venus, and Mars are all uni-plate planets, and may always have been. Here’s what’s known about why Earth, uniquely, has plate tectonics.
Our research on a Martian meteorite provides new clues about early surface conditions on the red planet.
“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
The first human that isn’t an Earthling could be in our lifetime.
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50 years ago, Herman Chernoff proposed using human faces to represent multidimensional datasets. It was a good idea in theory — but a disaster in practice.
Water on Mars is key for human survival on the Red Planet, not just for drinking but for growing food and making fuel and oxygen.
The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.
Out of the four rocky planets in our Solar System, only Earth presently has plate tectonics. But billions of years ago, Venus had them, too.
Why can’t more rainwater be collected for the long, dry spring and summer when it’s needed?
New DNA analyses raise questions over the theory that Christopher Columbus and his men brought syphilis to Europe.
We are traveling in a realm that once exclusively belonged to the gods. Space travel will force humanity to rethink everything.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
Freethink’s weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring Starship’s second test flight, a new “dark mysteries” telescope, and more.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
JWST just found its first transiting exoplanet, and it’s 99% the size of Earth. But with no atmosphere seen, perhaps air is truly rare.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Space missions in 2022 will include massive rockets and asteroid collisions. This is also the year space tourism starts to hit its stride.
As we look to larger cosmic scales, we get a broader view of the expansive cosmic forest, eventually revealing the grandest views of all.
If aliens are driven mostly by biological imperatives, humanity could be in big trouble if we ever meet technologically advanced beings.
The TRAPPIST-1 system is a treasure trove of possibilities and questions. Observations by JWST have just begun.
Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.