The eruption that buried Pompeii is helping scientists synchronize Earth’s geological clocks
Scientists used the precisely recorded 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius to recalibrate argon-argon dating, reducing uncertainty for…
A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
Earth’s days are not exactly the same length. Scientists have been recording small variations in for decades. These…
Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth’s surface
A new global isotopic map has revealed vast fragments of ancient Gondwanan crust buried beneath younger mountain belts…
Multilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems
Gridded datasets The ERA5-Land reanalysis produced by the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) is a land-focused…
Underground gases may explain Earth’s most devastating climate changes and mass extinctions
A hidden process deep beneath Earth’s surface may have played a powerful role in some of the most…
Scientists Find a New Way To Detect Hidden Water Ice on the Moon
On the first shift during the lunar flyby observation period, the Artemis II crew captured more than two-thirds…
Mars Rover Discovers Mysterious Field of Honeycomb Textures on Red Planet: ‘Took Our Breath Away’
Honeycomb pattern on Mars – Curiosity rover / NASA As NASA’s Curiosity rover ascended the Martian valley named…
Why Antarctica turned into an ice world millions of years before the Arctic
Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that…
Antarctica Froze Millions of Years Before the Arctic. We May Finally Know Why
Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It…
Geological Survey of Victoria maps 200,000 unrecorded gold rush mining features
Hidden beneath the ground throughout regional Victoria are relics of the state’s gold rush past. In July 1851,…
Scientists Tracked These Strange Arctic Icebergs and Found Something Unexpected on the Seafloor
A polar research expedition back in 2021 noticed something weird along the Fram Strait, a marine passage into…
Ancient oceans started to suffocate 8 million years before the Triassic mass extinction
The end-Triassic extinction is often overshadowed by the disaster that killed the dinosaurs, but on its own it…