Water is essential for human life and all known biology. Earth holds approximately 326 million cubic miles of water, roughly about 71% of the Earth’s surface. Earth sits in the perfect “Goldilocks zone”—not so far from the Sun that our water would freeze, and not too close to the Sun that water would vaporize. This has allowed stable liquid water […]
In an age of great technological achievement, many of humanity’s most basic, universal questions remain unanswered: how did the solar system come to be? How did the universe come to exist? And, perhaps most relevant to us as a species—how did life itself begin, and why on did this occur on Earth? The transition from non-life to life has never
A June 2025 article published by LiveScience claimed that a “swarm of ‘city killer’ space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids,” pose an “invisible” threat to Earth. These asteroids are found alongside another planet or large body, but they actually orbit the sun, not the celestial body. There are 20 of these asteroids currently found around Venus, and some of them
Why collect meteorites? It’s a simple question, yet one that invites a lot of discussion. There are meteorite collections in collections all over the world. The largest meteorite collections are housed by universities and museums like The Natural History Museum of Vienna, Arizona State University, NASA Johnson Space Center, and other institutions. Many of these collections aid in the study
Humans have looked to the stars since the dawn of our existence. If they were lucky, they’d catch a glimpse of a streak of light slicing through the night sky. Through archeological research, we know now that these early humans would actually find these mysterious, metallic sky stones, and know that they were not of this world. In hieroglyphs, “iron”
