Computer simulations have revealed that a hostile, tidally locked exoplanet located roughly 45 light-years from Earth is capable of hosting tectonic activity on a massive scale. Tectonic activity is ...
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major driver of shifts in the Earth's climate, as we know all too well in our currently warming world. But it also works the other way – in the past too little ...
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This artist’s illustration represents the possible interior dynamics of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b. The planet’s interior properties and the strong stellar irradiation might lead to a ...
Tectonic plates — which divide Earth’s crust and reshape our planet in an ongoing, dynamic process — may be the key to supporting life. In fact, because Earth is the only planet known to be home to ...
Astronomers have been intently studying an exoplanet called LHS 3844b for many years. Back in 2019, researchers announced that they believed the planet was covered by dark lava rock. Researchers ...
Rocks don’t appear to do much. But over millions of years, chemical reactions involving rocks can have a tremendous influence on Earth’s climate. Now researchers have amassed evidence that tectonic ...
The most broadly distributed contractional tectonic landforms on Mercury are lobate scarps 2,3,4,5. These scarps are the surface manifestation of thrust faults and are often hundreds of kilometres ...
A geologist has revealed intriguing insights into the volcanic activity on Mars. He proposes that Mars has significantly more diverse volcanism than previously realized, driven by an early form of ...
To date, Earth has been the only planet in the Solar System known to demonstrate tectonic activity. Other planets are geologically active, but not much more than that. However, it now looks like our ...
This artist's illustration represents the possible interior dynamics of the super-Earth exoplanet LHS 3844b. On Earth, the heat generated from the radioactive decay of elements in Earth's mantle ...
Continental shifting may have acted as a natural mechanism for extreme carbon sequestration. For hundreds of millions of years, Earth's climate has remained on a fairly even keel, with some dramatic ...
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