• Giant sinkholes in Wink region expanding, pose serious hazard, Texas

    New research, conducted by scientists from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, revealed two existing sinkholes near Wink, Texas, are expanding and are unstable. Also, results suggest that new sinkholes are forming as the nearby subsidence occurs at…

  • Research suggests major changes to geology textbooks

    A new research of the Earth’s crust and upper-mantle suggests that ancient geologic events may have left deep ‘scars’ that can come to life to play a role in earthquakes, mountain formation, and other ongoing processes on our planet. This changes…

  • Unreported sources of sulfur dioxide found by satellites

    Using a new satellite-based method, scientists have located 75 natural and 39 unreported and major manmade sources of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. When released into the atmosphere, sulfur dioxide forms sulfuric acid and fine particulate matter, secondary…

  • Huge magma build-up discovered beneath the town of Matata, New Zealand

    A huge magma chamber may slowly be growing beneath Matata town, southeast of Auckland in New Zealand, according to a new study performed by GNS Science. The discovery of a growing volcano may help to explain a recently observed swarm of earthquakes. Good news is,…

  • Planet 9 – the first exoplanet within our home solar system

    The newest computer simulation, conducted by researchers from the Lund University in Sweden, suggests the so-called Planet 9 is most likely an exoplanet. If the discovery proves correct, it will make it the first exoplanet revealed inside our home solar system and,…

  • Existence of the fifth fundamental force of nature to be confirmed

    Hungarian physicists have detected an anomaly in radioactive decay which may imply the existence of another, so far unknown, fundamental force of nature. The research results indicate a new, light boson, 34 times heavier than the electron particles may exist. The…

  • Organic molecules crucial for life found in Rosetta’s comet

    Scientists analyzing data acquired by ESA's comet chaser Rosetta while orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko have discovered organic molecules regarded as crucial for the origin of life on Earth. The ingredients include the amino acid glycine (C2H5NO2),…

  • Ice age confirmed at the north pole of Mars

    A team of scientists led by experts from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Texas has utilized the radar data collected by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to discover the evidence of an ice age at the Martian north pole. According to researchers, the…