New study reveals massive anomaly in Earth’s interior from moon-forming collision

Heterogeneity of earth's mantle may be relics of moon formation.

The importance of the Earth’s upper atmosphere in developing large geomagnetic storms

This research may help predict the storms that will have the greatest consequences.

After 373 years, the mystery behind the volcanic tsunami resolved

GEOMAR scientists reconstructed historic volcanic eruption using 3D seismics.

Most detailed underground images to date of the Long Valley Caldera

California supervolcano is cooling off but may still cause quakes.

Sounds of Earth’s crust

MIT scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability.

Ozone hole grows 3X the size of Brazil

Ozone hole goes large again.

Exploring the existence of life at 125 degrees Fahrenheit

Several lineages of amoebae were often recovered from extremely high temperature environments.

Scientists identified a new virus from the deepest place on Earth

The study helps probe how phages and hosts evolve together in secluded, hostile environments.

Exploring shell life species after Earth’s largest extinction

Shell life species not competitors as they adjusted to Earth’s largest extinction.

No, oxygen didn’t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth’s first multicellular organisms

Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks.

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