Some of the deepest parts of the Black Sea are still responding to the climate change demanded by the last ice age, scientists have discovered – a period that officially ended about 12,000 years ago. Analysis of gas hydrate deposits – in this case methane trapped by water molecules, in …
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Scientists have identified an old part of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of the ocean floor long before that – that stretches hundreds of miles below China in the transition zone of the Earth’s crust. The rocky slab that was used to line the bottom of the Pacific …
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Earthquakes come and go, leaving a trail of destruction in them. What they do not normally do is happily turn around immediately and return for another pass. Except … it seems like they can, in very rare circumstances. In a new study, scientists have found evidence of an unusual and …
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The Universe is not just a random scattering of galaxies scattered across an expanding void. The closer we look, the more we see that there are structures, some of which are incomprehensibly vast clusters and clusters of galaxies that are gravitationally bonded. Such a structure has just been discovered arching …
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Finding a potentially habitable exoplanet is not as easy as you might think. Orbiting at a warm distance from the host star is only the first step. Size and composition also play a role, as does the level of flare activity in the star. And all of that doesn’t mean …
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