In July 2019, a series of earthquakes including two major shocks of magnitude 6.4 and 7.1 a day apart struck near Ridgecrest, CA, between Los…
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Surface of Venus, observed by NASA’s Magellan (Magalhães) spacecraft, which mapped the entire surface of the planet using radar in the early 1990s. Evidence of…
Hot and cold beneath Tonga volcano. Credit: © Planetary Visions (ESA/Planetary Visions) The astonishing force of the Tonga volcanic eruption shocked the world, but the…
Ultra-Low Velocity Zones sit between the Earth’s outer core and lower mantle. Researchers have uncovered the most detail ever of the mysterious structures laying between…
Volcanos in present-day Siberia kickstarted the world’s biggest mass extinction event. Tiny microbes belching toxic gas helped cause — and prolong — the biggest mass…
Volcanic deposits both on land and on the seafloor are rapidly weathered, releasing nutrients like phosphorus to the oceans (example shown here is Montserrat, West…
4 billion years ago, the Earth was composed of a series of magma oceans hundreds of kilometers deep. Earth hasn’t always been a blue and…
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…
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…
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…