Ocean submesoscales as drivers of submarine melting within Antarctic ice cavities
Rignot, E. et al. Four decades of Antarctic ice sheet mass balance from 1979–2017. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.…
A call for integrated and cooperative global sharing of China’s Earth observation data
Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA Dong Chen & Alexandra Tyukavina Center for Global Change…
Surprise meteorite debris uncovered on Moon’s far side
Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have…
Scientists Just Detected a Long-Lost Planet ‘Hiding’ Inside Earth
If proto-Earth had all its parts and chemistry replaced to become the Earth we know today, can the…
The Moon is rusting — thanks to ‘wind’ blown all the way from Earth
A stream of charged particles that blows from Earth (foreground) to the Moon could account for the rust…
Life on Earth May Be Thanks to a Lucky Planetary Collision
Artistic illustration of the early formation phase of the Solar System. At that time, the young Sun (in…
Scientists Discover Mysterious Freshwater Reservoir Beneath the Ocean Floor. How Did It Get There?
Co-chief scientists Brandon Dugan of the Colorado School of Mines and Rebecca Robinson of the University of Rhode…
Infrared Instruments Could Spot Exotic Ice on Other Worlds
Water ice molecules are among the most common in the cosmos and influence the interior and exterior of…
New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago
Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern…