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A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

Discover how AI technology is unraveling the ancient mysteries of the Nazca geoglyphs in the deserts of southern Peru.

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In our daily lives, the sun seems constant and quiet, sedately shining at a steady pace. A fundamental rule in physics is ...

NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx, mission on Sept. 8, 2016. It traveled to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and ...

What we’ve found is that this reservoir hasn’t shut down — it’s been sitting there for a couple million years, but it’s still ...

A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

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