Geophysics/Gravity

Ritter Island gives new insights into the dynamics of volcanic landslidesCredit: Filming: Christian Berndt/GEOMAR, editing: Natalie Adler/GEOMAR On the morning of the 13th of March 1888, the inhabitants of the Finschhafen trading post on…

Credit: Prof. Yusuke Yokoyama, the University of Tokyo By using marine sediment cores from Northwestern Australia, a Japanese team led by National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and the University of Tokyo revealed that the…

GSA 2019 Annual Meeting & Exposition Meeting Announcement For Immediate Release Arizona Sets a Grand Stage for Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting and Exposition Boulder, CO, USA: Media registration is now open for…

Credit: US Coast Guard A study from The University of Texas at Austin is the first published in a scientific journal to take an in-depth look at the challenging geologic conditions faced by the crew of the Deepwater Horizon drilling…

Can the geologic and dynamic features that make our home planet habitable can be produced on planets with different compositions?Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser Washington, DC--Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and…

Credit: J. M. Madiedo / MIDAS Observers watching January's total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Spanish astronomers now think the space rock collided with the Moon at…

Credit: Hosono, Karato, Makino & Saitoh New Haven, Conn. - For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have the answer. Many theorists…

The GRACE twin satellite system has contributed two decades worth of crucial data on climate changeCredit: Cockrell School Of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin team that led a twin…

Research conducted by SISSA clarifies one of the recent most intriguing controversies on the most widespread form of matter in the Universe, which does not emit any type of electromagnetic radiation, and describes its relationship with…

Credit: Lee Sandberg Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six new binary black hole mergers that exceed the detection thresholds defined by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration…