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A Sudden Landslide Triggered Alaska's 2025 'Mega-Tsunami.' Now, Scientists Have Identified Warning Signs to Predict Similar Events
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (561+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent Despite being the second-largest landslide-induced tsunami on record, the event went largely unreported at the time. Luckily, no one was injured. “Normally, with these gigantic rock avalanches, they often give some sort…...
An Amateur Astronomer Using Google Maps Spotted a Strange Indentation. It Turned Out to Be a Meteorite Crater From 390 Million Years Ago
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (545+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was perusing Google Maps, plotting hiking routes for a camping trip, when he noticed something strange on the terrain. It looked to be a large indentation spanning 15.5 miles across and forming a…...
East Africa Might Break Off From the Continent Sooner Than Scientists Thought—and a New Ocean May Fill the Gap
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (517+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Around 250 million years ago, Earth’s modern-day landmasses were united in a supercontinent called Pangea. But the planet’s shifting outer layer—the crust—eventually broke it apart, according to the well-established scientific theory…...
When Did the Earth's Crust Start to Shift? Scientists Uncover Evidence of Plate Tectonics Happening 3.48 Billion Years Ago
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (411+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Sara Hashemi - Daily Correspondent The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces…...
A Rare Meteorite Found in the Sahara Desert Offers Evidence of a Lost Protoplanet
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (571+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite found in the Sahara Desert could be evidence for a long-lost planet that never came to be. The space rock, known as NWA 12774, was discovered in 2019 and belongs to a rare class of…...
Meet the Earliest Known 'Right-Handed' Animal, a Worm-Like Creature That Lived About 550 Million Years Ago
2+ mon, 3+ hour ago (390+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent A tiny critter that lived around 550 million years ago might represent the first known sign of right-handedness in animals—despite not having any hands. “As soon as you get something that has a left and a…...
In a First, Scientists Witness the Seafloor Spread in Real Time, Giving Them a Rare Glimpse at a Mysterious Geologic Process
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (376+ words) Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent Earth’s outermost layer—the crust—is constantly renewing itself. It’s broken into giant chunks called tectonic plates that pull apart, push against or slide past one another, creating grand geologic features. Underwater mountain ranges, or mid-ocean…...
Scientists Double Down on Age of What Might Be Earth's Oldest Impact Crater, Dating It, Again, at More Than Three Billion Years Old
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (630+ words) Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent After more than a year of controversy, scientists say they’ve used two geologic “clocks” to reconfirm that a site scarred by an ancient meteorite in Western Australia is more than three billion years old. They once…...
Scientists Uncover New Clues About the Volcanic Origins of the Giant's Causeway, an Iconic Geologic Structure in Northern Ireland
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (615+ words) Sarah Kuta | Daily Correspondent As the legend goes, an Irish giant called Finn McCool wanted...
It Took Millions of Years for Australia's Famous Twelve Apostles Landmark to Rise Out of the Sea
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (491+ words) More from Smithsonian magazine Margherita Bassi | Daily Correspondent In Victoria, Australia, the Great Ocean Road takes tourists past the “Twelve Apostles”—a collection of seven (confusingly, not a dozen) limestone rock stacks that stand 131 to 230 feet tall in the Southern Ocean,…...