It’s hard not to giggle a little when, just after you’re seated, your server solemnly intones, “Welcome to Earth.” But that’s how things roll at Kennebunkport’s latest hot spot. Its full name, Earth ...
Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet's surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed "Snowball Earth". Liquid water appears ...
Antarctica’s Don Juan Pond might be the unlikeliest body of water on Earth. Situated in the frigid McMurdo Dry Valleys, only the pond’s high salt content — by far the highest of any body of water on ...
One of the saltiest bodies on Earth, an analog for what water might look like on Mars, is just one piece of a larger aquifer. At the base of the Transantarctic Mountains lies a geological oddity. Don ...
The world's saltiest body of water is tucked away in a valley in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. It rarely snows and never rains in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. Winter temperatures can drop ...
Life on Earth began not with humans, but with meteorites and warm little ponds, according to recent research. That life began somewhere between 3.7 and 4.5 billion years ago as meteorites splashed ...
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