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The history of life on Earth is largely microbial. “You can certainly run a world without dinosaurs and humans, but you can’t do it without microbes.’ says Harvard Fisher Professor...

Posted on Jan 29, 2021 in Astronomy, Astrophysics, Black Holes, Cosmology, Cosmos, Dark Matter, Extraterrestrial Life, Science, Science News, Space, Universe Welcome to this week’s fix of news of space...

Posted on Dec 27, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

Posted on Nov 3, 2020 in Science Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

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Posted on Oct 17, 2020 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science The human experience on our pale blue dot “has lasted for less than 10 one-billionths of cosmic history surrounded by...

Posted on Sep 1, 2020 in Science “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our...

“Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future...

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 in Astronomy, Evolution, Science “Our moon is a witness to the history of the solar system,” says planetary scientist Kentaro Terada at Osaka University in...

Posted on Jul 29, 2020 in Biology, Climate Change, Evolution, Science “The oldest traces of life are fossils of marine microbes dating back almost 3.5 billion years. It was in...

Posted on Jul 31, 2020 in Black Holes, Science “We were all getting together and asking: what does this thing mean?” says radio astronomer Michael Johnson at Harvard’s Black Hole...

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 in Astronomy, Science “When you see Saturn floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel a cosmic connection –as if you uncovered mystery in...

Posted on Jun 29, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

“Astronomers have spent the last decades trying to understand what detectable traces of biological life, called ‘biosignatures,’ might exist in the universe,” said Penn State astrophysicist Jason Wright about NASA’s...

Posted on Jun 30, 2020 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science The asteroid was so large that, even at the moment of impact, the top of it might have still towered...

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In a recent blog, Harvard’s distinguished astronomer, Avi Loeb, celebrated the the launch of the space dog Laika onboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957, as a historic milestone, the...

Posted on May 27, 2020 in Climate Change, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and...

Posted on Apr 8, 2020 in Climate Change, News, Science, Technology “Planet Earth Report” provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people,...

Posted on Apr 23, 2020 in Astronomy, Science Episode Four of “Heard in the Milky Way” covers two intriguing stories: NASA’s plan to turn the moon into a telescope that...

Arthur C. Clarke, author of Space Odyssey 2001, famously warned “attempt no landing” to explore Europa, the most intriguing of Jupiter’s 79 moons, perhaps anticipating the “almost a racing certainty”...

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Posted on Jan 29, 2020 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science They co-existed with “truly giant volcanic events that can only be studied from the geological record, because they do not...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has stated that extraterrestrials are less speculative than dark matter or extra dimensions. In contrast to Loeb’s optimism, a study “Dissolving the Fermi Peradox”, posted in...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. Alternative Fact Virus:...

Posted on Nov 26, 2019 in Evolution, Geology, Science “It is remarkable to think that our oldest animal ancestors—and therefore all of us—may owe our existence, in part, to an...

“The Galaxy Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our knowledge of the Milky Way and Universe beyond. Our Place in the...

Posted on Nov 14, 2019 in Featured Articles, Science, Space, Technology The Royal Astronomical Society reports today that North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...

“We always thought of our Galaxy as an inactive galaxy, with a not so bright center,” said Magda Guglielmo from the University of Sydney about 2019 Hubble Space Telescope data...

Two long-held theories –the “Strangelove Ocean” and “Living Ocean” theories– about the last great mass extinction event in history when a meteor slammed into Earth at the end of the...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. Colorado Fossils Show...

Posted on Sep 19, 2019 in Astronomy, Climate Change, News, Science, Space “Normally, Earth gains about 40,000 tons of extraterrestrial material every year,” says Philipp Heck, a curator at the...

Posted on Sep 18, 2019 in Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy, Climate Change, Evolution, Extraterrestrial Life, News, Physics, Planet Earth, Science, Space, Technology The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. Organoids Are Not...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. On 9/11, Luck...

“It would be tantalizing to find microfossils of extraterrestrial forms of life on the moon. Even more exciting would be to find traces of technological equipment that crashed on the...

Posted on Sep 3, 2019 in Alien Life, Astronomy, Climate Change, Extraterrestrial Life, Featured Articles, News, Physics, Science, Space, Technology “Voyage Into the Unknown” –Quantum Time Can Co-Exist in Future...

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 in Biology, Climate Change, Science “We were stunned when the astronauts revealed in 1969 the beauty of our planet seen from space. It took Arthur...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. A Battle Is...

The “Planet Earth Report” connects you to headline news on the science, technology, discoveries, people and events changing our planet and the future of the human species. How walking helped...

Putting aside random events such as the 14-mile wide asteroid that destroyed the 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs and cleared the path for the evolution of the human species, aliens...

In the past 540 million years, the Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that upended the normal cycling of carbon through the atmosphere and oceans. These...

In contrast to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s optimism that extraterrestrials are less speculative than dark matter or extra dimensions, a study posted in September of 2018 conducted by three scholars...

Posted on Jun 17, 2019 in Astronomy, NASA, Science “We see so much more, and closer up, and we’re getting new and more interesting puzzles,” said NASA’s Ames Research Center’s...

Posted on Jun 13, 2019 in Biology, Evolution, Science Fossils of a giant new species –the Tyrannosaurus rex of the Cambrian–a long-extinct group of sea creatures called trilobites have been...

Some 65 million years ago the greatest asteroid impact in a billion years may have sown life throughout the solar system, even as it ravaged life on Earth. Blasted debris...

In the mid-1980s, a group of American archaeologists pored over satellite images trying to understand what had become of the Mayan civilization that had once ruled over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...

Posted on Jun 17, 2019 in Climate Change, Evolution, Science The largest extinction in Earth’s history marked the end of the Permian period, some 252 million years ago. Long before...

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 in Biology, Evolution, News, Science “Life on Earth has littered the fossil record with a wealth of information that has only recently been accessible to...