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Meteorite strikes made life on Earth possible
Meteorites from the far reaches of the solar system delivered large amounts of water, carbon and volatile substances to the Earth. Only then could...
A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past
Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic place....
Plate Tectonics
Researchers uncover 2.5 billion years of Earth’s continents breaking up and...
A new study of rocks that formed billions of years ago lends fresh insight into how Earth's plate tectonics, or the movement of large...
Scientists discover how and when a subterranean ocean emerged
"The mechanism which caused the crust that had been altered by seawater to sink into the mantle functioned over 3.3 billion years ago. This...
Volcanoes
Jurassic world of volcanoes found in central Australia
An international team of subsurface explorers from the University of Adelaide in Australia and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have uncovered a previously...
Earthquake
Rock scratches hint at future quakes
Curved scratches in rock faces may give clues to where big quakes could strike next, a study led by Victoria University of Wellington Master's...
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Mars
A material way to make Mars habitable
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm...
Ice-squeezed aquifers might create marsquakes
As the Mars InSight lander begins listening to the interior of Mars, some scientists are already proposing that some marsquakes could be signals of...
Moon
Formation of the moon brought water to Earth
The Earth is unique in our solar system: It is the only terrestrial planet with a large amount of water and a relatively large...
Magma is the key to the moon’s makeup
For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have...
