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Researchers confirm Earth’s inner core is solid
A new study by researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) could help us understand how our planet was formed.
Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalčić and...
Mineral discoveries in the Galapagos Islands pose a puzzle as to...
The Galapagos archipelago is one of the most famous groups of islands in the world. Many of the animal and plant species are unique...
Plate Tectonics
A wrench in Earth’s engine: Stagnant slabs
Researchers at CU Boulder report that they may have solved a geophysical mystery, pinning down the likely cause of a phenomenon that resembles a...
Plate Tectonics May Have Been Active on Earth Since the Very...
A new study suggests that plate tectonics—a scientific theory that divides the earth into large chunks of crust that move slowly over hot viscous...
Volcanoes
New Pompeii evidence rewrites Vesuvius eruption history
A newly-discovered inscription at Pompeii proves the city was destroyed by Mount Vesuvius after October 17, 79 AD and not on August 24 as...
Earthquake
Huge earthquake simulator getting upgrade to better simulate deadly temblors
The University of California, San Diego's outdoor shake table in Scripps Ranch will soon give engineers a truer sense of the fury released when...
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Mars
Mars valleys traced back to precipitation
The surface of Mars bears imprints of structures that resemble fluvial steam networks on Earth. Scientists therefore assume that there must have been once...
Meteorite ‘Black Beauty’ expands window for when life might have existed...
The early surface of Mars consisting of a liquid magma ocean crystallized extremely rapidly, just 20 million year after the formation of the solar...
Moon
Thank the moon for Earth’s lengthening day
For anyone who has ever wished there were more hours in the day, geoscientists have some good news: Days on Earth are getting longer.
A...
Magma ocean may be responsible for the moon’s early magnetic field
Around four billion years ago, the Moon had a magnetic field that was about as strong as Earth's magnetic field is today. How the...
