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New findings from NASA’s Perseverance rover suggest that ancient volcanic activity on Mars may have created conditions capable of supporting life. A team led by Texas A&M researcher Michael Tice has identified volcanic rock types that mirror…

For over a century, the Nazca Lines in Peru have puzzled archaeologists. These massive geoglyphs, created by the Nazca people between 200 BC and 650 AD, cover vast areas of desert, depicting animals, plants, and tools. Many of these intricate…

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Cole Messa and Ken Sims, from the University of Wyoming, and Mark Stelten,…

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Buried beneath the sun-baked rock of Big Bend National Park, a monumental secret lay hidden for millions of years—until a team of geology students from Sul Ross State University (SRSU) unearthed it during a routine expedition. Led by…

Antarctica’s winter sea ice usually forms a bright lid over millions of square miles. So when a massive, black patch was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were taken aback, to say the least.

Then roughly a year…

A camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently caught sight of curious markings stretching across the Tunisian desert — symbols so distinct that they resemble…

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the seconds between ‘then’ and ‘now’.

Down at the quantum scale of buzzing electrons, however, ‘then’ can’t always be…