https://www.earth.com/news/stone-tool-discovery-challenges-entire-theory-of-human-evolution/
Dec 3, 2024 - Recent stone tool discoveries are prompting a reassessment of the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens around 50,000 to 40,000 years ago.
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https://theconversation.com/microbes-in-deep-sea-volcanoes-can-help-scientists-learn-about-early-life-on-earth-or-even-life-beyond-our-planet-260977
Microbes hidden deep in ocean volcanoes could resemble life on other planets or moons.
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https://www.earth.com/news/lost-lineage-of-early-humans-in-africa-rewrites-our-origin-story/
Dec 7, 2025 - Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival traits.
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https://www.usu.edu/today/story/usu-biochemists-say-resurrected-ancient-enzyme-could-explain-early-life-on-earth-beyond
Researchers are report findings from study of 3.2-billion-year-old nitrogenases in Nature Communications.
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https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/astronauts-return-to-earth-after-early-departure-from-space-station-5971554
Jan 15, 2026 - NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman deemed the 167-day mission a success.
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/early-earth-water-maga-ocean-mantle
Dec 11, 2025 - When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, scientists say.
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https://www.earth.com/news/ice-age-climate-shifts-changed-early-human-migration-patterns/
Apr 6, 2025 - Ice Age climate shifts triggered major population changes in prehistoric Europe through migration and adaptation.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02461-1?error=cookies_not_supported&code=7a6a586f-4ee4-485e-a297-7961704f00ad
Jul 12, 2024 - Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion...
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ailing-astronaut-returns-earth-early-084544945.html
Jan 15, 2026 - SpaceX guided the capsule to a middle-of-the-night splashdown in the Pacific near San Diego, less than 11 hours after the astronauts exited the International...
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https://www.space.com/space-exploration/international-space-station/watch-3-astronauts-head-home-to-earth-from-the-international-space-station-tonight
NASA's Jonny Kim and two cosmonauts are scheduled to come back to Earth early Tuesday (Dec. 9), and you can watch their homecoming live.
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https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/august/near-earth-asteroid-bennu-contains-unique-materials-early-solar-system.html
Some of the most basic building blocks of the solar system are missing from one of its most dangerous asteroids.
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https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/science/nasa-astronauts-splashdown-iss-health-concern
Jan 15, 2026 - Four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean as they return early from the International Space Station due to a crew member’s medical issue.
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https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251204024245.htm
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction. Ancient melt inclusions and...
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