NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered an extraordinary planetary system with six rocky worlds capable of supporting life about 2000 light years from Earth.
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The scars of impacts on Mars
ESA’s Mars Express has returned new images of an elongated impact crater in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Located just south of the Huygens basin, it could have been carved out by a train of projectiles striking the planet at a shallow angle…
Earth’s core rotating faster than rest of the planet but slower than previously believed
New research gives the first accurate estimate of how much faster the Earth’s core is rotating compared to the rest of the planet.
Previous research had shown that the Earth’s core rotates faster than the rest of the planet. However, scienti…
Soil science: Healing our planet’s ills from the ground up
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Under our feet and ubiquitous, lowly soil can be easily overlooked when it comes to addressing climate change and population growth. But in the January-February issue of the Soil Science Society of America Journal, a team …
UF astronomers, NASA team find 6 closely packed planets orbiting same star
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A NASA team including three University of Florida astronomers has found six new planets in a distant solar system that in some ways resembles our own.
The NASA team, including UF associate professor Eric Ford, postdoctoral …
New age researchers highlight how man is changing the world
Human influence on the landscape, global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and biodiversity are highlighted in a new set of studies led by University of Leicester researchers.
How this influence will be reflected in the distinctive ge…
Widespread ancient ocean ‘dead zones’ challenged early life
The oceans became oxygen-rich as they are today about 600 million years ago, during Earth’s Late Ediacaran Period. Before that, most scientists believed until recently, the ancient oceans were relatively oxygen-poor for the preceding four billio…