Technosphere includes physical human-made structures such as houses, factories, smartphones, computers and landfill.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Leicester
"The technosphere is a major new phenomenon of this planet – and one that is evolving extraordinarily rapidly" – Professor Mark...
Scientists are building an accurate seafloor map can improve oceanographic and climate models, secure marine navigation, inform defence operations, and guide environmental decisions.
Marine scientists often feel like they're fumbling in the dark. The global ocean covers about 71 percent...
An enduring question in geology is when Earth's tectonic plates began pushing and pulling in a process that helped the planet evolve and shaped its continents into the ones that exist today. Some researchers theorize it happened around four...
Fourteen GPS stations across Australia show the direction of the continent's shift from month to month.Credit: Shin-Chan Han
Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimeters each year because of changes to Earth's center of mass, according to...
Mosaic of the Valles Marineris hemisphere of Mars projected into point perspective, a view similar to that which one would see from a spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
The origin and nature of Mars is mysterious. It has geologically distinct hemispheres, with smooth...
The first reports of seismic activity and ground vibrations on Mars are in. The red planet has a moderate level of seismic activity, intermediate between Earth and the Moon.
An international team that includes University of Maryland geologists released preliminary...
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's Kepler space telescope team has released a mission catalog of planet candidates that...
These mysterious earthquakes originate between 400 and 700 kilometers below the surface of the Earth and have been recorded with magnitudes up to 8.3 on the Richter scale.
Xanthippi Markenscoff, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace...
A naturally occurring injection of underground fluids drove a four-year-long earthquake swarm near Cahuilla, California, according to a new seismological study that utilizes advances in earthquake monitoring with a machine-learning algorithm. In contrast to mainshock/aftershock sequences, where a large...
New stress maps of Texas and Oklahoma, with black lines indicating stress orientation. Blue-green colors indicate regions of extension in the crust, while yellow-orange areas are indicative of crustal compression.Credit: Jens-Erik Lund Snee
New maps of the geologic forces contributing...
Something peculiar is happening in the azure waters off the rocky cliffs of Ischia, Italy. There, streams of gas-filled volcanic bubbles rising up to the surface are radically changing life around them by making seawater acidic. Stanford researchers studying...
