Scientists have determined that Earth’s ancient plume mantle (the deep part) had a water concentration that was a factor of 4 to 250 times lower…
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A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an…
Artist’s rendering of the process by which microbes captured sunlight for energy with rhodopsin proteins. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR Light-capturing proteins illuminate Earth of billions of…
A newly completed 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth. An innovative new perspective on mineralogy, findings rank amongst…
Artist’s illustration of uninhabitable conditions during the Hadean, an early geologic eon of Earth history. Credit: Alec Brenner Zircons (and the Secrets They Hold) Are…
Microscope photograph of a lower arc crustal rock used in the study showing minerals of garnet (red) and clinopyroxene (green). Credit: Courtesy of the researchers…
Capitol Reef National Park in south-central Utah. May 2, 2022. In the Utah desert, the red rocks, cliffs, and canyons of this nautically named national…
Animation of the Earth’s layers. New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed ‘image’ of an unusual pocket…
Fluid inclusions in halite. Credit: Courtesy Sara Schreder-Gomes Ancient microorganisms found in halite may have implications for search for both terrestrial and extraterrestrial life. Primary…
Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Caltech Murray Lab/Esri Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks…
A sample of black glass that recorded at 2,370 C temperature. Credit:: Gavin Tolometti Post-doctoral student Gavin Tolometti finds new evidence proving record-high for rock…
NASA’s Galileo spacecraft image of Jupiter’s moon Io, the planet’s third-largest moon. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Rutgers study shows new way dunes can form on…
NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover explores the Gale Crater. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Scientists will compare thermophysical properties from rover to orbital data and analog measurements…
Circulation of the global ocean. Credit: NASA Finding could help refine climate modeling. University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep…
The center of Lagoon Nebula, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Nebulae are the primary sources of helium-3, and the amount of He-3 leaking from the…
Arthropod (Naroia). Credit: Dr. Xiaoya Ma The ancestors of many animal species alive today may have lived in a delta in what is now China,…
Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry…
Around 2.3 billion years ago, oxygen began building up in the atmosphere, eventually reaching the life-sustaining levels we breathe today. A new hypothesis proposed by…
The sculpture created by the researchers. Credit: Johan Joelsson Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine…
Map showing Balkanatolia 40 million years ago and at the present day. Balkanatolia is a forgotten low-lying continent wedged between Europe, Africa, and Asia, already…