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An international team led by the University of Toronto researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater in South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth’s surface and how it may thrive on other planets. The same team previously discovered one-billion-year-old groundwaters in a mine, in Ontario, Canada,…

Drummond Island, Mich. — So this week I’m chewing up Drummond Island’s labyrinth of soggy off-road trails in a Ford Bronco Everglades. It’s the latest in a stream of Bronco trims aimed at conquering every corner of God’s green earth.

West Australian researchers are revealing previously hidden details of the earth's distant geological past by studying the age of ancient grains of sand.

The Webb team will release a stunning nebula, a scorching hot planet, a "glowing pool of light," a group of five galaxies, and a patch of deep sky galaxies.

A NASA spacecraft sent to investigate a massive asteroid that could one day hit earth discovered its surface is so loosely packed, stepping on it would be like stepping into a kids' ball pit

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Scientists have found more of the ingredients for life as we know it in a gaseous cloud toward the center of the Milky Way.

Astronomers are betting valuable observing time on the search for a world in the star's habitable zone.

Humans have explored nearly every corner of the Earth but there are still plenty of lands that some people believe are waiting to be discovered, however fanciful they seem

Paleontologists have discovered that hundreds of fossilized frogs died in an ancient swamp some 45 million years ago by bonking themselves to death.

The mission signifies a giant leap for Cornwall's ambitions to be ahead of the UK space race (Updated January 2023)