A chimney structure from the Sea Cliff hydrothermal vent field located more than 8,800 feet (2,700 meters) below the sea’s surface at the submarine boundary…
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Researchers use multi-anvil press to turn fullerene C60 into diamond glass, similar to the process of converting graphite to diamond in high-pressure apparatus. Credit: Image…
October 7, 2021 Novel geochemical dating techniques show that Norse people were in L’Anse aux Meadows exactly 1,000 years ago. Since the 1960s, archaeologists have…
Sandia National Laboratories researchers Melissa Mills, left, and Kristopher Kuhlman peer through a salt sample from their Waste Isolation Pilot Plant experimental site. Credit: Photo…
According to a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the influence of human-induced climate change is evident in the fact that lake-water temperatures are rising in…
An artist’s rendering of the conditions during the End-Permian Mass Extinction, which wiped out nearly all life on earth. (Illustration by Victor Leshyk ‘The end-Permian…
The Zumaia cliffs are characterized by an exceptional section of strata that reveals the geological history of the Earth in the period of 115-50 million…
Photo of volcanic ash taken in Hawaii on April 8, 2008. Credit: United States Geological Survey Scientists found evidence that a region of northern MarsMars…
Basaltic lava flow. Credit: The University of Queensland Lava samples have revealed a new truth about the geological make-up of the Earth’s crust and could…
Jupiter is shown in visible light for context underneath an artistic impression of the Jovian upper atmosphere’s infrared glow. The brightness of this upper atmosphere…
A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into…
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new insight into what caused one of the most rapid and dramatic instances of climate change in the history of…
Fiery river in Kamchatka, Russia. Extensive chains of volcanoes have been responsible for both emitting and then removing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), stabilizing temperatures at…
A study led by Princeton University researchers found that as meltwater lakes on the surface of Greenland’s ice sheet (pictured) rapidly drain, they create water…
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” (on a geological scale, though…
Pentagon of vortices. Mosaic of infrared images of Jupiter’s south pole. Credit: NASA/SWRI/JPL/ASI/INAF/IAPS Weizmann Institute scientists reveal how gigantic cyclones remain stable at both of…
The global distribution of the combined toxic-climate risk. The global distribution of the combined risk of toxic pollution (low or high ecosystem health) and climate…
Scientists say it is extremely challenging to try and predict when a supervolcano might erupt again due to the sheer diversity of events that have…
This illustration shows NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft and the limb of Mars. Credit: NASA/Goddard By combining observations from three international spacecraft at MarsMars is the second…
A new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder reveals the complex history behind one of the Grand Canyon’s most well-known geologic features: A…