4.2 Billion Year-Old Clues to the Origins of Earth’s Magnetic Field
The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack…
The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack…
100 million years ago, ferocious predators, including flying reptiles and crocodile-like hunters, made the Sahara the most dangerous place on Earth. This is according to…
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars’ Jezero crater — the destination of NASA’ Perseverance rover on the Red Planet — formed over time…
While the COVID-19 virus pandemic is forcing everybody to stay at home, we bring you these beautiful views from space of the Dutch tulip fields…
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a…
Harvard researchers detect some of the earliest evidence for modern-like plate motion. An enduring question in geology is when Earth’s tectonic plates began pushing and…
Researchers present new evidence that the deoxygenation of the ocean wiped out biodiversity during one of the “Big Five” mass extinctions in Earth’s history –…
In an effort to investigate conditions found at the Earth’s molten outer core, researchers successfully determined the density of liquid iron and sound propagation speed…
Earth’s molten core may be leaking iron, according to researchers who analyzed how iron behaves inside our planet. The boundary between the liquid iron core…
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Victoria Falls – one of the world’s greatest natural wonders. Victoria Falls, known locally as Mosi-oa Tunya or…
The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack…
Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of…
Researchers open a window onto ancient mammal evolution using fossils from Germany. The former coalfield of Geiseltal in Saxony-Anhalt has yielded large numbers of exceptionally…
Surrounded by lush vegetation and rare butterflies, the San Rafael Waterfall was one of the most captivating landscapes in Ecuador. With water dropping 150 meters…
A topic of considerable interest to paleontologists is how dinosaur-dominated ecosystems were structured, how dinosaurs and co-occurring animals were distributed across the landscape, how they…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian. A team led by UC Riverside geologists has discovered the…
The average power of waves hitting a coastline can predict how fast that coast will erode. Over millions of years, Hawaiian volcanoes have formed a…