Earth’s water did not come from melted meteorites, according to a new study that analyzed melted meteorites that had been floating around in space since…
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The oceans absorb carbon dioxide and play a critical role in reducing global warming. However, according to a study by The University of Texas at…
Landscape evolution over the past 100 million years. Credit: Dr. Tristan Salles, The University of Sydney / AAAS An advanced digital tool can assist us…
Helium is a gas vital for MRI scanners and high-tech industry – which is suffering from severe supply issues. Now research has identified a new…
An earthquake in Alaska causing seismic waves to penetrate the Earth’s innermost inner core. Credit: Drew Whitehouse, Son Phạm and Hrvoje Tkalčic. Data captured from…
A new study led by University of Chicago geophysicist Sunyoung Park suggests there may be a layer of surprisingly fluid rock located in the Earth’s…
Earthquakes are sudden and intense shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates or volcanic activity. They can occur anywhere in the…
A schematic depiction of high-speed hydrogen ions injected from the solar surface into the lunar surface and enriched on the surface of lunar soil particles…
Adult and young of the ichthyosaur species Shonisaurus popularis chase ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, U.S.A.…
The biggest earthquake ever recorded on Mars has uncovered layers in its crust that could signify a previous collision with a large object, such as…
Iron-rich Fe–O compounds at Earth’s core pressures. Credit: Jin Liu Oxygen is the key substance for life and one of the most abundant elements on…
An artist’s illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, was designed to give…
During the 2018 Montecito mudslides, powerful flows of debris pushed boulders out of creek-carved canyons toward homes, causing destruction and 23 deaths. New findings from…
A picture of a building following an earthquake. According to a study led by the University of California, Los Angeles geophysicists powerful supershear earthquakes, previously…
An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
Monitoring the composition of magma gasses could help predict dangerous volcanic eruptions. Scientists want to take the knowledge from this discovery and build a 24/7…
Illustration of a satellite being destroyed by space debris. The reduced atmosphere in the upper atmosphere will increase satellites’ risk of collision with space pollution.…
This oblique perspective view of Tithonium Chasmata, which forms part of Mars’ Valles Marineris canyon structure, was generated from the digital terrain model and the…
Stitched together from 28 images, this view from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover was captured after the rover ascended the steep slope of a geologic feature…
An interior cutaway of the early Earth highlighting its major geodynamic processes. Magnetic field lines are drawn in blue and red emanating from the liquid…