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Water appeared while Earth was still growing
Up until about ten years ago, scientists thought they had a pretty good picture of how the moon and Earth came to co-exist. Then...
Brewing up Earth’s earliest life
Around 4 billion years ago, Earth was an inhospitable place, devoid of oxygen, bursting with volcanic eruptions, and bombarded by asteroids, with no signs...
Plate Tectonics
Keeping an eye on the soundness of structures
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) used synthetic-aperture radar data from four different satellites, combined with statistical methods, to determine the structural...
Formation of supercontinents and strength of ocean tides
The cyclic strengthening and weakening of ocean tides over tens of millions of years is likely linked to another, longer cycle: the formation of...
Volcanoes
Scientists decipher the magma bodies under Yellowstone
Using supercomputer modeling, University of Oregon scientists have unveiled a new explanation for the geology underlying recent seismic imaging of magma bodies below Yellowstone...
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Water pressure a critical factor for mega-earthquakes
The 2016 Mw 7.6 earthquake of Southern Chile was the first large earthquake to occur within the rupture bounds of the great 1960 Mw...
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Life in world’s driest desert seen as sign of potential life...
For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils...
Did surface life evolve on Mars? scientist makes key discoveries in...
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because...
Moon
Do moon phases produce big earthquakes?
Huge earthquakes are not significantly influenced by the moon, a new study says.
The study, conducted by U.S. Geological Survey seismologist Susan Hough, looked at...
Collisions after moon formation remodeled early Earth
Southwest Research Institute scientists recently modeled the protracted period of bombardment following the Moon's formation, when leftover planetesimals pounded the Earth. Based on these...
