Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause is certainly more puzzling.
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What is Mars made of?
For thousands of years, human beings have stared up at the sky and wondered about the Red Planet. Easily seen from Earth with the naked eye, ancient astronomers have charted its course across the heavens with regularity. ...
Space Exploration
Feb 26, 2015
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How an unprecedented magma river surged beneath an Iceland town
A river of magma flowed underneath an Icelandic fishing village late last year at a rate never before recorded, scientists said Thursday, as the region suffered yet another dramatic eruption.
Earth Sciences
Feb 9, 2024
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What is the Haleakala Volcano?
Hawaii is famous for its lovely mountains, tropical climate, and majestic oceanfront vistas. Another thing it is famous for is the string of volcanoes that dot its islands. As a land that sits atop a geographic hot spot – ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2015
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Ancient drop of water rewrites Earth's history
The remains of a microscopic drop of ancient seawater has assisted in rewriting the history of Earth's evolution when it was used to re-establish the time that plate tectonics started on the planet.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2019
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Guatemala's Fuego volcano erupts again
Guatemala's deadly Fuego volcano erupted anew early Friday, unleashing a 600-meter flow of lava and sending clouds of ash spiralling into the sky.
Environment
Oct 12, 2018
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Hunting Venus 2.0: Study narrows James Webb Space Telescope targets
With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they've ever been to finding an analog of Earth's "twin."
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2023
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Breathable atmospheres may be more common in the universe than we first thought
The existence of habitable alien worlds has been a mainstay of popular culture for more than a century. In the 19th century, astronomers believed that Martians might be using canal-based transport links to traverse the red ...
Space Exploration
Dec 13, 2019
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Megathrust earthquake and tsunami 3,800 years ago kept hunter-gathers in Chile inland for 1,000 years
An international team of researchers has found evidence of a megathrust earthquake occurring approximately 3,800 years ago off the coast of what is now Chile. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the ...
Data from Kilauea suggests the eruption was unprecedented
A very large team of researchers from multiple institutions in the U.S. has concluded that the Kilauea volcanic eruption that occurred over this past summer represented an unprecedented volcanic event. In their paper published ...
