Two Minerals – Never Before Seen on Earth – Discovered in Massive Meteorite
New minerals discovered in massive meteorite may reveal clues to asteroid formation. At least two new minerals that have never before been seen on Earth…
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Surprising Findings – New Samples Shed Light on the Moon’s History and Makeup
The new study analyzed soil samples brought back from the Chang’E-5 mission. According to a study that examined soil samples returned as part of the…
Berkeley Analysis Reveals the Age of Yosemite Valley
How old is California’s Yosemite Valley? First-time visitors to Yosemite Valley stare in astonishment at El Capitan’s sheer granite wall and Half Dome’s cleanly sliced…
Mass Extinctions May Have Been Driven by the Evolution of Tree Roots
Geologists find parallels between ancient, global-scale extinction events and modern threats to Earth’s oceans. A series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth’s oceans during…
Laying Geological Groundwork for Life on Earth – Early Plate Tectonics, Flipping of Geomagnetic Poles
Research led by Harvard University offers new, sharper proof of early plate tectonics and flipping of geomagnetic poles. New evidence points to the role of…
An Underground Ocean? Scientists Discover Water Deep Within Earth
An international research team led by a Goethe University professor analyzes diamond inclusions. The boundary layer between the upper and lower mantles of the Earth…
Behold! The World’s Next Supercontinent, Amasia
New research has found that the world’s next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years….
How Do Rare Earth Elements Form? Scientists Create Synthetic Rocks To Find Out
New light has been shed on the formation of increasingly precious rare earth elements (REEs) by researchers from Trinity College Dublin. They accomplished this by…
The Earth’s Newest Secret: Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work
Recent discoveries from Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall eruptions alter what we know about how volcanoes work. Learning something that fundamentally changes how we understand our world doesn’t…
Scientists Discover a 4-Billion-Year-Old Ancient Piece of Earth’s Crust Underneath Western Australia
Lasers pave the path for finding ancient crust. Curtin University researchers have discovered evidence of an approximately four billion-year-old piece of the Earth’s crust that…
Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Not Likely To Flip
A new study argues that Earth’s magnetic poles are unlikely to flip. There has been speculation that Earth’s magnetic polarity is about to reverse as…
Retreat of Glacier Edges in Alaska’s Kenai Fjords National Park
As glaciers around the world retreat due to climate change, managers of national parks need to know what’s on the horizon to prepare for the…
Explaining Long-Standing Mysteries About Earth’s Formation and Evolution
New Model Shows Earth’s Deep Mantle Was Drier From the Start Earth’s mantle is the thick layer of silicate rock between Earth’s crust and its…
Ancient Rocks Hold Clues to How Earth Avoided a Mars-Like Fate
New paleomagnetic research suggests Earth’s solid inner core formed 550 million years ago and restored our planet’s magnetic field. Swirling liquid iron in the Earth’s…
Extraterrestrial Life: Ancient Microbes May Help Us Find Alien Life Forms
Light-capturing proteins illuminate Earth of billions of years ago. Scientists have reconstructed what life was like for some of Earth’s earliest organisms by using light-capturing…
Diverse Origins of Earth’s Minerals: Helping Find New Minerals, Habitable Planets, and Extraterrestrial Life
An innovative new perspective on mineralogy, findings rank amongst the field’s most important in the last century. Scientists decipher and catalog the diverse origins of…
4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Offer Clues to When Plate Tectonics Began, Setting Stage for Life on Earth
Zircons (and the Secrets They Hold) Are Forever Scientists have long known that plate tectonics, the movement of distinct, rigid plates that make up the…
Explosive New Tectonic Discovery May Help Explain Location of Silver and Gold Ore Deposits
Magma Beneath Tectonic Collision Zones Is Wetter Than Previously Thought New research findings may help explain how Earth’s crust forms, the location of ore deposits,…
