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The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...

Alien: Earth is coming up this summer, and we know it's going to be a scary ride. The first-ever TV show in the sci-fi franchise is set to channel the horror vibes of Ridley Scott's Alien as the ...

This study takes tight carbonate core samples in the fourth member of the Ordovician Majiagou Formation in the Ordos Basin as the research object, and the rock physics experiments, computed tomography ...

Soreghan et al. (2023) defended earlier work done from 2008 and onwards by different coauthors (e.g., some of the following quoted by Soreghan et al. (2023), and others not quoted; Sweet and Soreghan, ...

Ediacaran; Ꞓ, Cambrian; O, Ordovician; CI, confidence interval ... The 'boring billion' refers to a period in Earth's history, approximately 1.45 to 0.72 billion years ago, characterized by relative ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.

Earth is the only planet we know of that has ... The first fossil record we have of fire comes from the Middle Ordovician period, billions of years later. In terms of fire, there is a sweet ...