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China's Zhurong Rover May Have Found Martian Crystals Filled With Pockets of Ancient Brine
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (343+ words) Zhurong just found a tantalizing geological clue....
Kīlauea Blasts Lava 500 Feet High in Stunning Eruption Under a Full Moon
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (403+ words) It poured 4.7 million cubic metres across Halemaʻumaʻu crater in just 7.4 hours....
Scientists Discovered a New Type of Rock Made Out of a Gemstone Mineral Inside a Martian Meteorite
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (898+ words) This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history. On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in…...
Stonehenge’s Altar Stone May Have Traveled Partway on a Glacier from Scotland Before People Took Over
1+ week, 23+ hour ago (877+ words) A glacier may have shortened the journey, but humans still moved the six-ton stone in place. Long before Stonehenge rose above Salisbury Plain, one of its stones may have begun an extraordinary journey inside a glacier. The Altar Stone, a…...
The Dinosaurs May Have Had Only Hours Before Extinction After the Asteroid Struck and Turned the Planet into a Global Furnace
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1001+ words) New research suggests fine dust trapped heat from falling debris, producing a deadly pulse that could have ignited forests around the world. For the animals living on Earth 66 million years ago, the end may have begun in darkness. A six-mile-wide…...
These Revolutionary Maps Are Revealing Earth's Geological Secrets
1+ week, 1+ day ago (491+ words) Plate boundaries are often sprawling zones of deformation rather than clean lines. On most classroom maps, Earth’s tectonic plates fit together like pieces of a neatly cut puzzle. But the real world doesn’t always follow our neat depiction. A global…...
Origin of Human Eyes Traced to 560-Million-Year-Old One-Eyed 'Cyclops"
1+ week, 3+ day ago (13+ words) Before vertebrates had two eyes, their ancestors may have looked upward with one....
The Largest Intact Meteorite on Earth Is Still Exactly Where It Landed. But Why No Crater?
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1028+ words) Home → Features → Space & Astronomy → The Solar System → Asteroids, meteors & comets The Hoba meteorite smashed into the Earth, but look around it, and you won't see any crater. The Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known natural piece of iron…...
A Camper’s Google Maps Hunch Revealed a 390-Million-Year-Old Meteorite Crater
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (231+ words) A ring in Quebec’s wilderness turned out to be a rare cosmic scar....
Nickel Fingerprints Reveal What the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Made Of
2+ week, 6+ day ago (541+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology The culprit may have been an unusually dry relic from the outer solar system. The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, vaporized…...