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Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
NASA Spots a Bizarre 'Jellyfish' Floating on Mars. Here's What We Know.
2+ week, 1+ day ago (243+ words) NASA rovers Curiosity and Perseverance have photographed some pretty strange objects on the surface of Mars....
An Active Volcano May Be Creating a Valuable Metal Deposit Deep Underground
2+ week, 5+ day ago (322+ words) Volcanoes can wreak devastation when they erupt, but they're also a valuable natural resource: the liquids that bubble up from magma are often rich in important metals....
'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (608+ words) When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale rocks lying around in Jezero Crater in 2025, scientists did not expect anything out of the ordinary....
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (617+ words) Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity's best efforts to keep the frozen continent relatively untouched. Mercury is released into the environment naturally by volcanoes and geological weathering, but ever since…...
California's Drought Has Now Caused Irreversible Damage to a Crucial Aquifer
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (708+ words) The cracks in parched soils are only a superficial, if harrowing, sign of drought. To fully understand the impact of long-lasting droughts made worse by climate change, scientists need to know what's happening deep underground – in the world's aquifers. These…...
Earth's Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (364+ words) The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll – or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered onion, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity....
Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike in a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (737+ words) Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for decades, scientists have wondered whether these seemingly unrelated events might actually…...
World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (523+ words) Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see....
Scientists Find a Razor-Sharp Line of Earthquakes Hidden Beneath Alaska
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (230+ words) Back in 2002, a massive earthquake in central Alaska was felt as far away as Seattle....