Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
Scientists from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) have uncovered fresh geological evidence that water once flowed beneath the surface of Mars, suggesting the Red Planet may have stayed habitable ...
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Why Mars became a desert while Earth stayed alive
For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began with similar ingredients—rocky surfaces, carbon, water, and sunlight—but ...
As the oldest and driest desert on Earth, Chile's Atacama Desert is a treasure trove of discoveries for scientists and tourists alike.
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Rare dusting of snow covers one of the driest places on Earth and shuts down massive radio telescope — Earth from space
A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...
NASA is taking its newest Mars exploration technologies out of the lab and into Earth's most brutal deserts, pushing drones, walking robots and experimental flyers through scorching heat, shifting ...
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Earth’s driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica.
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What would happen if the deserts disappeared?
D eserts are too quickly dismissed as hostile environments. Hot, dry, and uninviting, it's often difficult to imagine how a ...
We begin in the oldest desert on earth – the Namib, in south western Africa. A pair of ostriches raise their family in the searing heat to keep them safe from predators – but time is ticking as the ...
The desert planet, Arrakis, in "Dune: Part Two" has extreme temperatures and little water. Surviving on such a planet would take technology and adaptability. Three experts explain what it might be ...
Where there’s a tree, there’s usually a forest. But not always. A biologist describes some of the loneliest trees on planet Earth. When we think about isolation in nature, we usually picture islands ...
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