A team of researchers led by planetary geologist Erica Luzzi from the University of Mississippi has identified a promising location on Mars that could support future human habitation. The site, ...

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NASA images reveal shallow ice beneath Mars’s surface, offering a promising water source for future astronauts and clues to ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

After the sun arrives at its solstice point, it will begin to migrate back toward the south and the amount of daylight in the ...

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Earth’s tilt is what causes the seasons; in the summer, when our planet’s pole is tipped toward the sun, the days are longer, and the true sun’s daily path across the sky is higher. The opposite is ...

Others stay over winter too, enduring frigid temperatures and perpetual darkness for weeks on end. But very little was known about how and when these birds first got to the highest latitudes of Earth.

The Earth is also constantly shifting: the motion of tectonic plates causes latitude and longitude coordinates to slowly move, mandating that they be updated every few decades.