The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Kathleen Stebe, Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), is tackling this ...

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The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

South America has a great example of a convergent plate boundary ... The plates of the Earth's crust are constantly moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the ...

Producers have been in a race against time, fighting weather and a changeable political climate to avoid paying millions in ...

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Beneath Mount Erebus, researchers have found a hidden underground ecosystem that could rewrite history. This hidden world may ...

A hui with 40 iwi groups today is so Māori land owners get an early notice of what the Crown is proposing to do, Jones says.

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