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Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...
A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...
NASA has revealed which countries could be hit if a “city killer” asteroid strikes Earth with a map of the risk corridor. Scientists have slashed the odds of a collision between ...
About 400 kilometres northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...
Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, ...
Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...
Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer ... Luckily, the mid-Atlantic ridge is deep under the ocean, so earthquakes ...
An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.
I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...