Scientists Discover Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown canyon hidden beneath two kilometers of ice in Greenland. The canyon is at least 750km long and in places…
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“Hidden Flux” of Material May Help Explain Earth’s Origins
Scientists at MIT have discovered a “hidden flux” of material deep in the Earth’s mantle that would make the planet’s overall composition more similar to…
Cassini Will Photograph Earth in Natural Color
On the 19th of July, NASA’s Cassini probe will take a mosaic picture of Earth while Saturn is eclipsing the sun from Cassini’s point of…
Study Suggests Life on Earth is the Result of Icy Comets
A newly published study suggests that life on earth may have started as a result of icy comets that crashed into Earth billions of years…
Satellite Data Reveals a Shift in Vegetation Growth at Northern Latitudes
In a newly published study, scientists examined the relationship between changes in surface temperature and vegetation growth, finding that temperature and vegetation growth at northern…
Using a Fifth Force of Nature to Probe Earth’s Deep Interior
In a newly published study, university researchers propose a new way to probe Earth’s deep interior that relies on a fifth force of nature called…
Fluctuations in Weather Patterns Help Decrease the Antarctic Ozone Hole
Data from NASA and NOAA satellites show that the average area covered by the Antarctic ozone hole this year was the second smallest in the…
Number of Microbes Living on Earth Drastically Lower Than Previously Thought
The floor of the ocean is home to 2.9×1029 single-celled organisms but this large number, 10 million trillion microbes for every human on planet Earth,…
Felix Pharand-Deschenes Maps Human Influence On Earth
Canadian scientists Felix Pharand-Deschenes used satellite images to map the human influence on Earth, depicting how much it has changed, as seen from space. Pharand-Deschenes…
New Disk Model Better Explains Why the Earth is a Dry Planet
While analyzing the common accretion-disk model explaining how planets form in a debris disk around the Sun, scientists found that a newly proposed disk model…
Dynamic Earth Excerpt and Visuals
Enjoy an excerpt from the full-length “Dynamic Earth” presentation, which explores the inner workings of Earth’s climate system with visualizations based on satellite monitoring data…
Evidence Suggests that Earth May Be Headed Toward an Irreversible Change in the Biosphere
A new paper by 22 international scientists describes the need for better predictive models based on detailed understandings of how the biosphere reacted in the…
Earth’s Water Supply Summed Up in One “Tiny” Bubble
You’ve probably heard the saying that Earth is mostly water, roughly 70%. Well it turns out that many people have misunderstood the facts and that…
Defects in Mantle Rocks Slow Down the Passage of Seismic Waves
A new study from the Australian National University examines defects in rocks found below the earth’s surface in an attempt to better understand how seismic…
Earth’s Continental Crust Growth Rate has Decreased
Newly published research shows that the growth rate of the Earth’s continental crust has decreased significantly over the last three billion years, leaving researchers to…
New Models Hone Picture of Climate Impact on Earth
While climate models can forecast temperature changes and precipitation, they struggle to indicate how climate change will affect the factors that make Earth habitable, such…
Earth Loses 50,000 Metric Tons of Mass Every Year
According to some calculations, the Earth is losing 50,000 metric tons of mass every single year, even though an extra 40,000 metric tons of space…
‘Blue Marble’ Image of the Earth Taken from NASA’s Suomi NPP Satellite
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP, captured this “Blue Marble” image of Earth on January 24, 2012 using the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite. As you…