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Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still out on what it all means.'
The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...
Science Daily15h
Seismology: How wide are faults?
Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...
Earth.com15h
All life on Earth comes from one single ancestor, now we know what it was
Researchers found LUCA, our earliest common ancestor, lived 4.2 billion years ago. It had a complex biology, affecting its ...
A Meteorite From Alaska Challenges Theory of How Earth Got Its Water
Scientists speculate that asteroids colliding with Earth delivered water—an essential building block of life—but new research ...
Earth.com18h
Scientists can map subtle shifts in Earth's gravity using atoms
NASA’s quantum sensor satellite will map gravity shifts to uncover Earth’s hidden resources, changes, and patterns.
New Atlas18h
North America is sinking down into the Earth’s mantle
A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...
Front Page Detectives on MSN21h
Scientists Baffled to Find Signs of Another Core Within Earth’s Inner Core, Say ‘We Have to Rewrite the Textbooks’
Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...
TheTravel on MSN21h
The Origin Of Life On Earth—Have We Been Wrong This Whole Time?
How animate life was formed from inanimate matter has always been a mystery, but scientists are closer to finding what may ...
Magnetic fields can map the universe—here's how
Who knew that magnetic fields could be so useful? Astronomers are able to use magnetic fields to map our environment within ...