The earliest lifeforms, cyanobacteria, appeared around 4 billion years ago. These organisms, now known as algae, were among the first to engage in oxygenic photosynthesis.
In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...
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New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...
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Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...
The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 meters), which is roughly the size at which an asteroid could take out a ...