Ancient Meteorite Found in the Sahara Holds Secrets About Mars’ Watery Past
In 2022, a strange rock was found in the Sahara Desert, and now a new analysis reveals that…
How a massive ice shelf buttressed the last ice age’s glaciers — and what it could mean for Antarctica today
About 20,000 years ago, an enormous, floating ice shelf more than a mile thick helped lock in three…
NASA Is About to Investigate What Lies Beneath a Giant Hole on the Moon
Artist’s concept of a potential lunar cave beneath the Marius Hills region of the Moon. NASA-backed scientists plan…
NASA releases trove of Moon data from historic Artemis II flight
Artemis II astronaut Jeremy Hansen captures images during the lunar flyby.Credit: NASA Planetary scientists have fresh Moon joy…
Contrasting aerosol–cloud feedbacks across a warming Arctic
Pithan, F. & Mauritsen, T. Arctic amplification dominated by temperature feedbacks in contemporary climate models. Nat. Geosci. 7,…
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…
With a Better Understanding of Physics, We Could Predict Volcanic Eruptions
As part of this work, hundreds of seismometers, as well as networks of fiber-optic cables, will be used…
Increase in global warming potential of atmospheric black carbon since 1750
Jacobson, M. Z. Strong radiative heating due to the mixing state of black carbon in atmospheric aerosols. Nature…
Mercury Isn’t What Scientists Thought: New Study Reveals a Surprisingly Different Surface
Mercury may preserve evidence of a hotter, more extreme interior than scientists once expected. Credit: Shutterstock From tiny…
Precipitation and soil phosphorus regulate post-drought resilience in tropical forests
Pan, Y. et al. The enduring world forest carbon sink. Nature 631, 563–569 (2024). Article CAS Google Scholar …
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…