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…
A massive rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth’s sixth ocean
The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and…
Reduction of tropical cyclone-induced ocean carbon outgassing since 1993
Ciais, P. et al. Five decades of northern land carbon uptake revealed by the interhemispheric CO2 gradient. Nature…
The First Atomic Bomb Test in 1945 Created an Entirely New Material
During the Trinity nuclear test on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert—the world’s very first test…
Continent formation may have set the stage for life on Earth
Long before forests, fish, or even single cells, Earth may have needed something as unglamorous as growing continents…