volatiles
‘CLEVER Planets’ Project Aims to Discover How to Create Habitable Planets
Scientists know little about the Hadean eon, the tumultuous first 600 million years of Earth’s…
Natural processes that move carbon through Earth, like plate tectonics, subduction, and volcanic…
The start of the deep carbon cycle on Earth was vital to creating a planet where life could evolve…
In a new paper [1] in Nature, Remco Hin at the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues, examined…
A new analysis of comet ice and dust collected by Rosetta, a spacecraft launched by the European…
Researchers thought that this process efficiently moves deep carbon, carried by the magma, and…
Deep underground, fluids circulating in Earth’s crust and mantle transport carbon, sulfur and other…
In a new study published in Nature Geoscience, DCO scientist Rajdeep Dasgupta (Rice University, USA…
The depth at which mantle materials melt depends on the elements present in the rock, particularly…
During a volcanic eruption, these exsolved magmatic fluids return to the atmosphere. Sometimes,…