Greenhouse gas can find a home underground
New MIT analysis shows there’s enough room to safely store at least a century’s worth of U.S. fossil fuel emissions.
What drove the lunar dynamo?
Research supports theory that the moon’s molten core was likely sustained by an alternative power source.
An eruption-fueled extinction?
Enormous volcanic eruptions may have triggered the worst extinction in Earth’s history.
Timeline of a mass extinction
New evidence points to rapid collapse of Earth’s species 252 million years ago.
The tallest tree in the land
New model predicts maximum tree height across the United States; gives information about forest density, carbon storage.
Explained: Measuring earthquakes
How do scientists measure jolts such as the recent disaster in Japan? Hint: They don’t use the Richter scale.
Cold asteroids may have a soft heart
Partially molten small bodies may be abundant in space, and may have given the Earth its oceans.
Seeing through the cracks
In the wake of Japan’s largest earthquake, MIT scientists look for geological clues to explain its devastating magnitude
Reading Earth’s magnetic history
New tool allows unprecedented accuracy in dating of some seafloor rocks, with potential to help climate analysis.
Earth’s final growth spurt
NASA team suggests that massive projectiles added mass to Earth, Mars and the Moon during final phase of planet formation
Growing Earth’s oceans
Study suggests that trace amounts of water created oceans on Earth and other terrestrial planets, including those outside the solar system.
Tracing Earth’s history
Geologists aim to improve the accuracy of their process for dating ancient rocks.
Telling time on the moon
New map of lunar craters sheds light on early solar-system activity and points to oldest parts of the moon’s surface.