How did life begin on Earth? For decades, science has tried to solve the mystery of how the inanimate chemistry of our young planet transformed into the first biological building blocks. Until now, theories suggested that it all stemmed from a random “primordial soup.” However, a revolutionary discovery published just a few days ago proposes [...]
The map covers continental mantle earthquakes occurring around the world. Illustration: Axel Wang. For decades, it was believed that earthquakes originated only in the Earth’s crust, but recent research has confirmed that they also occur in the mantle. A team led by Shih-Chi Wang of Stanford University has produced the first systematic global map of these [...]
NASA’s Artemis II mission has marked a historic milestone following its launch on April 1, 2026, becoming the first crewed flight to the Moon in more than 50 years since the Apollo program. The Orion spacecraft, powered by the SLS rocket, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center with four astronauts on board and reached [...]
For decades, scientists have known that our planet’s core isn’t made of just iron and nickel. They know this because there’s a “density deficit”—the Earth’s center is lighter than it should be. What secret ingredients complete the recipe? A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a fascinating element: hydrogen. Studying the core [...]
Riotinto mining park (Huelva). Photo: Ramón Perucho An international team of scientists from the universities of Oxford, Durham and Toronto have identified huge reserves of natural hydrogen in the Earth’s continental crust, accumulated over more than a billion years. This finding, published in the journal Nature, suggests that these reserves could supply the planet’s energy needs [...]
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