NASA Satellite Captures First-Ever High-Res View of Massive Pacific Tsunami
A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula sent a tsunami racing across the Pacific—and for the…
Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Open in Africa, and It Could Form a New Ocean
Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling…
Earth’s Secret Advantage: Why Most Alien Worlds May Be Too Dry for Life
This image of Venus taken by NASA’s Mariner 10 spacecraft (left) is paired with an artist’s depiction of…
Scientists Say a Hidden Structure May Exist Inside Earth’s Core
Scientists have found evidence that Earth’s inner core may contain a previously unknown layer, suggesting the planet’s center…
Global subsidence of river deltas
Selection of global river deltas We selected 40 deltas globally, prioritizing 35 deltaic systems with the greatest exposed…
Spin transition in magnesiowüstite and ultralow thermal conduction in ultralow velocity zones
Thermal conductivity of Fp25 and Fp75 at high pressure and room temperature We used ultrafast time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR)…
Scientists Discover the Hidden Ingredient That Helped Form Earth’s Inner Core
Cartoon of the Earth with cutaway showing the mantle and inner and outer core. Magnetic field lines produced…
Scientists Crack the Billion-Year-Old Mystery of the Magnetic Field
A view of the Earth’s interior around 1 billion years ago: Tangled magnetic field lines inside the core…
Mysterious changes near Earth’s core revealed by satellites in space
Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious…
giant antenna disassembled in orbit
In a significant step for global Earth observation, seventeen days after the launch of the NISAR satellite from…