New research using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on…
A newly published study reveals that a combination of naturally occurring atmospheric processes and pollutants crossing the Pacific Ocean from China have offset the reduction…
A new study from the University of British Columbia reveals that the early loss of radioactive heat-producing elements such as uranium and potassium helped put…
New measurements from ESA’s CryoSat Satellite show that the volume of Arctic sea ice increased following the unusually cool summer of 2013, suggesting that ice…
Paleontologists working in China unearthed the fossil remains of one of the closest cousins of Velociraptor, but it looks just like a bird. This newly…
Atmospheric scientists from MIT have developed a simple model that may predict cyclone activity on other planets. For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious…
A new model from researchers at Yale University helps explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth’s continental lithosphere. Lithosphere is…
New data show that the first single-celled organisms with a nucleus originated more than a billion years later than biogeochemical evidence had previously indicated. Contaminated…
A newly published study reveals the remains of tiny creatures found deep inside a mountaintop glacier in Peru, providing clues to the local landscape from…
New computer simulation techniques suggest that crashing comets are responsible for the formation of lunar swirls on the Moon. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) —…
Using satellite data and eight radar surveys captured during a 15-year period from 1998–2012, researchers reveal that the Larsen C Ice Shelf is thinning from…
Data from the Cosmic Ray Telescope and the Advanced Composition Explorer has revealed that energetic charged particles (such as galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic…
A newly published study from MIT geologists reveals that a double subduction system may have driven India to drift at high speed toward Eurasia some…
New research from a team of geologists reveals that the Earth’s inner core has an inner core of its own, with crystals aligned in a…
New research from Brown University and Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science shows that warmth and water flow on ancient Mars were probably episodic, related to…
New data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals evidence of basaltic volcanism on the Moon occurring within the past 100 million years. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…
New research from the University of Sydney is shedding light on what set the Earth’s massive tectonic plates in motion, suggesting that it was triggered…
Using data from NASA’s Galileo orbiter, scientists have discovered clear visual evidence of Europa’s icy crust expanding. The discovery implies two-way communication between the exterior…