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If Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics in its distant past, did it have life too?
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoNew research suggests the solar system's hottest planet, Venus, could have had Earth-like plate...
Earth's plate tectonics traced back to 'tipping point' 3.2 billion years ago
Live Science via Yahoo News· 11 months agoResearchers analyzing ancient deposits in Australia found evidence that Earth's layers started to...
Earth-like plate tectonics may have shaped Venus billions of years ago
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA computer-generated three-dimensional perspective view of the surface of Venus. Venus has a surface...
Two giant blobs lurk deep within the Earth, but why?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 1 month agoIn this illustration, parts of the ancient planet Theia sink and accumulate at the bottom of the Earth’s mantle. This forms two ‘blobs’ called large...
A New Theory Offers an Explosive Explanation for Earth's Mysterious Blobs
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoAncient Collision May Have Created Plate TectonicsJose A. Bernat Bacete - Getty Images Among the...
What Causes the Tectonic Plates to Move?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Plate Boundary Observatory, set up in 2004 by UNAVCO (funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA) as a network of Earth-measuring...
Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Really Are Alone in the Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoAstronomer Frank Drake formulated his influential equation in 1961 to estimate the number of...
Why the Discovery of an Active Volcano on Venus Matters
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn image of Venus's Maat Mons, captured by the Magellan orbiter Credit - NASA/JPL-Caltech Venus had...
Life on Mars could have thrived near active volcanoes and an ancient mile-deep lake
Space via Yahoo News· 4 months agoNew evidence that Mars was volcanically active around 4 billion years ago could provide researchers...
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...