The loss of huge ice masses can contribute to the warming that is causing this loss and further risks. A new study now quantifies this…
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The research vessel JOIDES Resolution in Fremantle (Australia) the morning before the ship sailed on Expedition 356. The results are based on samples taken from…
Earth’s thin shell of oxygen atmosphere keeps us alive, though we still don’t know exactly how it formed. A new study from the University of…
The smaller storms on Saturn interact with the larger system and as a result effectively pinch the eastern jet and confine it to the top…
Ryugu is approximately 1 kilometer wide and weighs 450 million tons. Credit: © JAXA/UTokyo/Kochi U/Rikkyo U/Nagoya U/Chiba Inst Tech/Meiji U/U Aizu/AIST Researchers find evidence that…
The stellar explosion, SN 1987A, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, was one of the brightest supernovae in more than 400 years. Credit: ESO Discovery…
Central Alps of Switzerland have been lifted to today’s height. Credit: ETH Zurich ETH researchers have used a computer model to test a new hypothesis…
Anna Rood standing next to a tall, slender precariously balanced rock in Southern California. Cosmogenic surface exposure dating samples have been collected to determine its…
The prevailing theory has been that sea ice can act as a lid to keep carbon in the ocean from escaping back to the atmosphere.…
Nanolite ‘snow’ surrounding an iron oxide microlite ‘Christmas tree’. Even these small 50 nm spheres are actually made up of even smaller nanolites aggregated into…
Artist’s impression of the collision of two protoplanets. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook International research team solves theory of how diamonds formed inside protoplanets. Geoscientists from Goethe…
Asteroid 4-Vesta is the second-largest body in the asteroid belt. Uranium-lead dating and other analytical methods tell researchers which meteorites come from Vesta and also…
Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia. Credit: GFZ For the first time, long-term photogrammetic series document the “life cycle”…
Illustration of a carbon-rich planet with diamond and silica as main minerals. Water can convert a carbide planet into a diamond-rich planet. In the interior,…
The four largest moons of Jupiter in order of distance from Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR The gravitational push and pull by…
This false-color photograph shows a “forest” of many candy pinnacles that have been dissolved in water. The candy was initially a solid block containing pores,…
Rock-melting forces occurring much deeper in the Earth than previously understood appear to drive tremors along a notorious segment of California’s San Andreas Fault, according…
Provides for local solar eclipses: The moon Phobos orbits Mars. Graphic: jihemD/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 NASA’s InSight mission provides data from the surface of…
Since the crystals of microdiamond are finer than 1 micron, they were confirmed by the latest analytical techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, soft X-ray spectroscopy,…
A computer simulation of the Earth’s magnetic field, which is generated by heat transfer in the Earth’s core. Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier By creating conditions…