Scientists thought this ancient supercontinent broke apart slowly: new research suggests Earth tore itself open far faster than expectedRecent studies reveal that the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana around 180 million years ago was more violent and rapid than previous...
12 May, 2026, 04.25 PM IST
Geologists Find Strange Stone Tunnels That Could Point to a Never-Before-Seen Lifeform on EarthScientists found tiny, organized tunnels within desert rocks. These formations are unlike natural geological processes. Chemical traces sug...
25 Apr, 2026, 04.17 PM IST
A Discovery Underground Is Raising New Questions About the Future of Clean EnergyA new energy source is emerging from deep within the Earth. Scientists have discovered natural hydrogen gas, a clean fuel, forming undergro...
10 Mar, 2026, 04.19 PM IST
How old are Saturn's rings? Study suggests they could be 4.5 billion years old, just like the planetNew research suggests Saturn's rings may be as old as the planet itself, challenging previous estimates. Scientists found micrometeoroid im...
17 Dec, 2024, 12.00 PM IST
Earth’s inner core may be spinning in ‘opposite direction’, says studyEarth’s inner core, which is roughly 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) below the surface, seems to have been spinning in the opposite directio...
24 Jan, 2023, 12.49 AM IST
Doomsday Glacier on the verge of a complete meltdown? Read to knowThe Nature Geoscience journal published research that mentions the Doomsday Glacier could start melting uncontrollably and affect ecosystem...
11 Sep, 2022, 10.42 AM IST
- How carbon leak may have led to human civilisation
New York, July 31 (IANS) An increase in the activity of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Southern Ocean could explain the mysterious growth of h...
31 Jul, 2018, 11.54 PM IST
Global fossil fuel emissions underestimated: studyEthane and propane escape into the air from leaks during natural gas extraction and distribution, including from fracking - the process of ...
27 Feb, 2018, 04.20 PM IST
- Moon's interior may contain water
New York, July 26 (IANS) There may be substantial amounts of trapped water in the interior of the moon, researchers have said.
26 Jul, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
Climate change redirects Canadian river: StudyLast summer, for example, Kluane Lake, which was fed by the Slims River, dropped a full meter below its lowest recorded level for that time...
19 Apr, 2017, 02.39 PM IST
Earth's internal heat driving Greenland's ice to meltGreenland's lithosphere has hot depths which originate in its distant geological past and cause the island's ice to rapidly flow and melt f...
08 Apr, 2016, 03.57 PM IST
'Melting of Antarctic ice shelves to double by 2050'The melting of Antarctic ice shelves will double by 2050 and by 2100, melting may surpass all predictions if greenhouse gas emissions conti...
13 Oct, 2015, 01.16 PM IST
Origin of Saturn's F ring and satellites foundIn 1979, Pioneer 11 discovered the F ring located just outside the main ring system that extends tens of thousands of kilometres.
13 Sep, 2015, 01.11 PM IST
Continents rose above oceans earlier than thoughtContinents may have first risen above the oceans about 3 billion years ago - a billion years earlier than thought, a new study has found.
28 Jun, 2015, 02.18 PM IST
Earthquakes occur on moon, reveals analysisAn analysis of pictures taken by Chandrayaan-1 has found that tectonic plates are present inside moon's surface similar to earth and causes...
14 Jun, 2015, 08.49 PM IST
Erosion may trigger earthquakes: StudySurface processes such as erosion and sedimentation may trigger shallow earthquakes and favour rupture of large deep quakes up to the surfa...
24 Nov, 2014, 05.03 PM IST
- Greenhouse gas emission by oceans rising due to global warming
Rising temperatures can indirectly increase the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by the oceans, a study shows.
09 Jun, 2014, 04.33 PM IST