A recent international study, led by Associate Professor Henrik Drake from Linnaeus University, has uncovered groundbreaking evidence that microorganisms lived deep beneath Greenland’s rocky surface 75 million years ago. This research offers new insights into the history of the “deep biosphere”, a hidden world of life existing far beneath the Earth’s surface. The deep biosphere […]
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Earth Had a Ring Like Saturn’s for Millions of Years, and Its Shadow Triggered an Ice Age
A recent study published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals evidence that Earth may have had a ring similar to Saturn’s around 466 million years ago, during the Ordovician period. The research team, led by Andrew G. Tomkins from Monash University in Australia, reached this surprising conclusion after meticulously analyzing the geographical […]
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A massive undersea avalanche devastated the northwest coast of Africa 60,000 years ago
A study from the University of Liverpool has unveiled the colossal scale and devastating impact of a massive underwater avalanche that struck the northwest coast of Africa some 60,000 years ago. This research, published in Science Advances, provides unprecedented insights into the magnitude and destructive force of submarine avalanches, a phenomenon shrouded in mystery until […]
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Over the last 700 million years, the distance between the Earth and the Moon has increased by 20,000 kilometers, and the days have lengthened by 2.2 hours
A team of scientists from Chengdu University, led by academic Wang Chengshan, has published a study in the renowned journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the result of an international collaboration involving experts from institutions such as the Paris Observatory, the Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics in Germany, and Trinity College in […]
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The Earth Hasn’t Lost a Continent, but Has Gained a Microcontinent
In recent days, many media outlets have been citing a study published recently in the journal Gondwana Research to argue that North America and Europe should be considered a single continent, and therefore Earth would have one less than previously established. However, the study actually says nothing of the sort. On the contrary, it argues […]
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Scientists Achieve Deep-Sea Drilling Milestone, Recovering Longest Section of Mantle Rocks
In a groundbreaking achievement, a team of international scientists has successfully retrieved a significant section of rock from the Earth’s mantle, marking a new era in the study of our planet’s inner workings. The mantle, located beneath the Earth’s crust and constituting the largest part of the planet, holds key secrets about the origins of […]
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Melting of Polar Ice is Affecting Earth’s Rotation and Lengthening our Days
If Earth continues to warm, climate change will have a greater impact on the speed of our planet’s rotation in the future than the Moon does now, according to a recent study by ETH Zurich supported by NASA. The melting of ice masses in Greenland and Antarctica is causing water from the polar regions to […]
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An Encounter 2 Million Years Ago with “Something Outside the Solar System” May have Triggered an Ice Age on Earth
Millions of years ago, Earth might have temporarily moved out of the sun’s protective shield, known as the heliosphere. This shield, depicted as a dark gray bubble against the backdrop of interstellar space, plays a crucial role in shielding our planet from harmful radiation and cosmic rays. According to recent research published in Nature Astronomy, […]
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Scientists Confirm Earth’s Inner Core Rotation is Slowing Down, and is Now Slower than the Surface
Scientists from the University of Southern California (USC) have confirmed that the Earth’s inner core is rotating more slowly than the planet’s surface. This significant finding, published in Nature, reveals that the inner core began to decelerate around 2010, overturning previous beliefs about its rotational dynamics. For decades, the scientific community has debated the movement […]
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Earth’s Great Oxidation Event Lasted 200 Million Years
Around 2.5 billion years ago, free oxygen, also known as O2, began to accumulate in significant amounts in the Earth’s atmosphere. This was a crucial event that set the stage for the development of more complex forms of life on our evolving planet. Scientists call this phenomenon the Great Oxidation, or GOE (Great Oxidation Event). […]
