8+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1128+ words) Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth’s continental landmass. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Hundreds of millions of years after Gondwana broke apart, enormous pieces of the ancient landmass may still be hiding beneath some…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (470+ words) Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains have found a strange process deep below the surface. The Earth’s crust in this region appears to be slowly pulling apart, almost like a zip opening from underground. The finding comes from researchers at the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1641+ words) Nature Geoscience (2026) Cite this article a, The maximum observed magnitudes from smallest to largest and their corresponding maximum interface coupling. b, Cross-plots of the two observables. The high correlation factor R2 = 0.65 for the least-squares fit demonstrates a strong, positive, linear relationship…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (730+ words) Inicio > Comunicaciones > UIS Research Reveals New Clues About the Origin of the Bucaramanga Seismic Nest Santander is home to one of the most remarkable seismic phenomena on the planet. Beneath the surface, at a depth of approximately 140 kilometers, lies the…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (489+ words) Earth’s inner core remains one of the planet’s hardest places to understand. Now, an extreme laboratory experiment has uncovered unusual behavior that researchers had struggled to observe directly. Something unusual may be happening deep inside Earth. Experiments suggest that hydrogen…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (365+ words) New data on the formation of Earth’s oldest and largest ice sheet may help solve a long-standing mystery surrounding the southernmost continent, according to the website “The Debrief.” About 34 million years ago, the Antarctic ice sheet began to form—during…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (100+ words) DVIDS Fourth and fifth graders in Planetary GEMS investigated geology, oceanography, and meteorology. These students launch rockets they built. [Image 10 of 17] FORT RUCKER, ALABAMA, UNITED STATES U. S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory /search/unit/USAARL /rss/unit/4576 Students in Neuroscience GEMS investigated…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (659+ words) A notice about cookies Did you find what you were looking for? Help us improve AI search results by giving your feedback (3-5 mins). From: Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment Exploring for geothermal energy deep beneath our capital city…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (620+ words) A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southern Alaska on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, adding to a series of significant earthquakes that have captured attention around the world in recent months, including powerful events in Venezuela and Colombia. According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the…...