Geology

The Largest Earthquake On Mars Ever Detected

Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates like Earth, but it does have volcanically active regions that can cause rumbles, and one way to develop a better understanding of Mars’ mantle and core is to examine seismic active. In March, NASA’s InSight lander detected ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2022 - 8:27am

Will There Be Water Wars In The Future?

With the population at 8 billion and on its way to 10, there is renewed concern about resources, but water? Yes, though the percentage of the world's water that is potable can be counted on one hand many countries don't have access to oceans. And ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 23 2022 - 10:08am

Earth’s Water Did Not Come From Melted Meteorites

Water is over 70 percent of the surface of the earth but how that came to be, through what mix of random chance and extraterrestrial involvement, has been a debate. Earth is a relatively small planet and relatively near its star so creating large surface o ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2023 - 10:30am

Volcanoes Have Huge Climate Impact, Including Underwater Ones

Natural events like solar cycles, wildfires, and volcanoes have created dramatic shifts in climate throughout history. Sometimes they even have cultural impact, such as the 'year without a summer' in Europe due to a volcano on the other side of t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 11 2023 - 10:53am

An Earth Day Should Be 60 Hours Long- Here's Why It Never Happened

Everyone knows a 'day'- one rotation of Earth- is around 24 hours long and lengthening at a rate of some 1.7 milliseconds every century. Yet 2 billion years ago it was 19.5 hours and at that rate we should have days lasting 60 hours. Yet we don&# ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2023 - 2:43pm

Satellite Images Of China's Three Gorges Dam

Some call it the eighth wonder of world. Others say it's the next Great Wall of China. Upon completion in 2009, the Three Gorges Dam along China’s Yangtze River will be the world's largest hydroelectric power generator and one of the few man-made ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2024 - 9:12am

AI Reveals 10X More Yellowstone Volcano Earthquakes Than Known Before

Yellowstone was the first national park designated in the United States and is a popular tourist destination, but there is a lot going on underneath that people never feel. A new analysis of 15 years of historical earthquake data from the Yellowstone calde ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2025 - 11:03am

How The Ancient Volcanoes Of Ultima Thule Impacted Climate Then And Now

Some sixty million years ago a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, from Scotland to Greenland. We can detect the effects in spectacular basalt columns of th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2025 - 2:23pm

A 900-Meter Clue Beneath The Granite: China’s Jinlin Crater Reshapes Our Understanding Of Holocene Impacts

For decades, scientists have assumed that the Holocene—the relatively quiet geological epoch spanning the last ~11,700 years—was marked by only a handful of small meteorite impacts, most of them modest in size. But a newly confirmed structure in southern ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Nov 22 2025 - 2:09am