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A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued. The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles) southwest of Albany on the southwest tip of Western Australia state at...
New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the landmasses we see today. In an article published in Communications...

From dinosaurs to birds: The origins of feather formation

Feathers are among the most complex cutaneous appendages in the animal kingdom. While their evolutionary origin has been widely debated, paleontological discoveries and developmental...

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...

Is the moon a chunk ejected from Earth? Study sheds light on moon formation, origin of water on Earth

A research team from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has discovered another piece in the...

Himalayas formation may have destroyed at least 30% of continental crust in collision zone

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal expansion and collision. In the latter...

New research unveils extreme complexity in formation of rare earth mineral vital for tech industry

In a new study, researchers from Trinity have unveiled that myriad, intricate factors influence the genesis and chemistry of bastnäsite and rare earth carbonates,...

Changing environments can change layers formation speed in sedimentary rocks, leading to incorrect time estimates

Layers of sedimentary rock are often studied to recreate Earth's history. But rocks aren't always the most reliable historians. New research shows that environmental...

What do early Earth’s core formation and drip coffee have in common?

A new technique developed by Carnegie's Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang provides fresh insight into the process by which the materials that formed Earth's...

Scientists unveil a unified theory for rocky planet formation

A new theory for how rocky planets form could explain the origin of so-called "super-Earths"—a class of exoplanets a few times more massive than...

How magnetism could help explain Earth’s formation

There are several theories about how the Earth and the Moon were formed, most involving a giant impact. They vary from a model where...

New insights into the Earth’s formation

Although the Earth has long been studied in detail, some fundamental questions still have to be answered. One of them concerns the formation of...

Martian meteorite upsets planet formation theory

A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as...

Carbon’s role in atmosphere formation

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the way carbon moves from within a planet to the surface...

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