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Can a movement many feet below our feet quietly change the Earth’s rotation? Over 3,000 miles below the ground, the Earth’s ...
Recently, Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds. While this change is minor, scientists are ...
A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...
Mars is known for its barren desert landscape and dry climate. But two recent studies in the journals Nature and Science go ...
Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...
Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...
That raises the possibility that the TRAPPIST-1e exoplanet could also have liquid water and therefore support life.