Tag: geophysics

We know more about our Moon and Mars than the bottom of our oceans.

The Earth's mantle isn't just a hot, dense layer of rock; it's a dynamic and diverse engine driving our planet's ...

A Yellowstone eruption is the stuff of apocalyptic nightmares, but there's good news: a new study shows its magma is ...

It's an important puzzle piece in showing how the pyramids were built.

We're uncovering Egyptian relics without a single shovel.

Yellowstone is one of the most striking geological features on the planet. Now, researchers got a better view of its ...

Thanks to NASA's InSight Mars mission we now have a good picture of the interior of another planet.

The frayed head of the Indian plate keeps shaking up the whole area.

Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.

Scientists finally crack down a puzzle that has eluded the community for years. It seems sea level rise does indeed ...

Even inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, outside of Cairo, researchers have found something interesting.

Researchers at MIT have developed a device that can track human silhouettes behind walls using Wi-Fi.

Just as the Moon is causing waters on Earth to go up and down (tides), so too does the Earth ...

We tend to think of the Stonehenge as a lone giant, huge blocks of rock towering over the quiet British ...

A major Viking hall measuring over 50 metres in length has been identified near Vadstena in Sweden. Archaeologists from Stockholm University and ...

It's one of England's better kept secrets - Old Sarum is a hidden gem among gems, one of the most ...

Scientists have discovered an almost rectangular feature consisting of ancient magma. The features are similar to rifts here on Earth, a ...

This aerial photograph shows patchmarks whose position suggest there were once laid stones there. Photo: English Heritage Stonehenge is one ...

For the first time, geophysicist in New Zealand will place seismic sensors deep into a geological fault to record the ...

The former popular landscape was an expanse of warped shapes, out of which some were as tall as a Manhattan ...

A researchers from the University of Southampton has developed a a wireless network of sensors that is set to revolutionize ...

A laudable, ambitious initiative is nearing fruition: the US$90-million Transportable Array, a moveable grid of seismometers that blankets America. Since ...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have found a layer of liquefied molten rock in Earth's ...

Evidence of drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent have been found in sand grains from the beaches of a small ...

The past few years have been marked by numerous seismic events, some of dramatic magnitude; aside from the huge 9.1 ...

A giant landslide on Iapetus reaches halfway across a 75-mile (120 kilometer) impact crater.(c) NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Planetary scientist Kelsi ...

The permanently shadowed crater adjacent to the lunar south pole, called Shackleton, after the famous Antarctic explorer. Left elevation mapping, ...

The Yellowstone super volcano, which basically outlines the whole Yellowstone National Park, is part of one of the most active ...

The human brain is wired to see all kinds of patterns in various shapes. The most common one is that ...

Scientists from China, US and Mexico have used light detection and ranging laser altimetry (LiDAR)  to study how an earthquake can change ...

  Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a press briefing where scientists ...

Yellowstone is without a doubt one of the most fascinating places on the face of the planet. But it doesn't ...

It's been quite a while since we published anything about the Cassini mission, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been ...

We probably all know (especially thanks to the abundancy of TV series) what Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) are. Probably not ...

The next step in prospecting and mining has always been a subject of speculation and theories, ever since the days ...

Storm elves and sprites are electric luminous fleeting phenomena that sometimes naturally occur in the upper atmosphere. A team of ...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn't go without a blast, that's for sure ! I'm gonna show you ...

Evolution isn't just for living organisms, as scientists the Carnegie Institution found. They found that more than 3000 of the ...