Author: contact.geology

Solar system’s journey through Orion complex 14 million years ago may have altered Earth’s climate

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of...

Giant ice bulldozers: How ancient glaciers helped life evolve

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life...

Mars’s core evolution: Lab experiments hint at solid inner core formation

Geochemical evidence from laboratory experiments for a potential solid inner core at the center of Mars is reported in Nature Communications. Data from NASA's InSight...

Scientists have discovered a 3-billion-year-old beach buried on Mars

In the 1970s, images from the NASA Mariner 9 orbiter revealed water-sculpted surfaces on Mars. This settled the once-controversial question of whether water ever...

Laser-powered device tested on Earth could help detect microbial fossils on Mars

The first life on Earth formed four billion years ago, as microbes living in pools and seas: what if the same thing happened on...

Mega-iceberg from Antarctica is headed toward South Georgia—here’s what could happen

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice...

Greek scientists say Santorini’s earthquake swarm is in ‘gradual decline’ as thousands return

Scientists from the University of Athens monitoring an earthquake swarm near the island of Santorini said Monday the phenomenon was in "gradual decline" nearly...

Volcanic forces may have fueled early marine life, study suggests

Analysis of fossilized rocks known as stromatolites from more than 2.5 billion years ago has provided new insights into the conditions on Earth before...

Ancient beaches testify to long-ago ocean on Mars

A Chinese rover that landed on Mars in 2021 detected evidence of underground beach deposits in an area thought to have once been the...

A 380-million-year-old fossil ‘fish’ from Scotland has been discovered in Australia

Queensland is renowned for its fossils of Australia's largest back-boned animals—dinosaurs, of course, like the Jurassic Rhoetosaurus, the Cretaceous Wintonotitan, and other large sauropods. However,...

Arabia’s rainfall was five times more extreme 400 years ago

A new study reconstructing extreme rainfall in Arabia has uncovered that rainfall in the region was five times more extreme just 400 years ago,...

New sauropod species from Romania transforms understanding of dinosaur island life in Europe

The end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago, marked the dramatic extinction of the dinosaurs. Until now, our understanding of this mass...

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