9+ hour, 10+ min ago  (463+ words) The solar system as we know it today began to form roughly 4. 6 billion years ago, with the Sun and its planets emerging from the collapse of a massive cloud of interstellar gas. Our star system's early years remain shrouded in…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (242+ words) It would be pretty amazing if, say, an oil spill cleaned itself up or if a car somehow removed carbon dioxide from the air while driving down the highway. Well, according to new research published in Nature Communications, a volcano…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (207+ words) New research published in Science, compiled by a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters, suggests Yellowstone's heat may come from much shallower depth than previously thought, and is largely driven by tectonic movement that's stretching and…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (520+ words) NASA's In Sight Mars lander made an unusual discovery while probing the Red Planet's surface for seismic activity. After poring over years of data from the spacecraft, and comparing it to measurements taken by NASA's Viking landers from the 1970s, scientists…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (694+ words) Most people associate ash and churning lava with volcanic activity, but volcanoes also produce formations that look unnervingly like human ponytails. Known as Pele's hair, these extremely thin strands of volcanic glass are named for Pele, a female figure in…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (896+ words) Prospectors are scouring the Pacific Ocean seafloor and Greenland's vast landscape for valuable minerals to run the world's economy. Should Antarctica be added to the treasure hunters' list? A new study finds that, as the climate continues to warm over…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (612+ words) In November, scientists arrived at the South Pole in planes outfitted with skis to pull off a construction project seven years in the making. They had a short summer window " November to early February " to drill six new holes at…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (280+ words) For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing "gravity holes," which are enormous depressions in the Earth's crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average. As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, University…...

4+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (375+ words) A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence that two ancient, continent-sized, ultrahot structures hidden beneath the Earth have shaped the planet's magnetic field for the past 265 million years. These two masses, known as large low-shear-velocity provinces…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (395+ words) Other types of humans were roaming around Europe long before Homo sapiens ever called it home. They improvised tools from whatever the landscape offered, and they did so way, waybefore scientists previously thought. Two new studies suggest that early hominins…...