Carbonate rocks are unrecognized methane sink Date: October 15, 2014 Source: Oregon State University Summary: Since the first undersea methane seep was discovered 30 years ago, scientists have ...

Methane-producing microbes in California rocks Date: May 24, 2016 Source: American Geophysical Union Summary: Scientists report that they have found evidence of hardy, methane-producing microbes ...

A surprising and mysterious belch of methane gas on Mars hints at possible microbial life underground, but also could come from changes in rocks, a new NASA study found. The presence of methane on ...

June 14 (UPI) --Methane-eating microbes in the planet's oceans play an unappreciated role moderating Earth's temperature, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of ...

To spit out methane at the same rate over the planet's 4.5-billion-year lifetime would require a global, 50-centimetre-thick layer of the mineral, spread a few kilometres below the planet's crust.

Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...

Each rock contains only small amounts of methane, but “when you take the widespread occurrence of these rocks into account, you all of a sudden realize that this is actually indeed a massive ...

Methane Lakes and Ice Rocks: Welcome to Titan. Posted: April 7, 2025 | Last updated: April 7, 2025. Discovered in 1655 by Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens, Titan is Saturn’s largest moon ...

As the rock formations warm up, cracks and pockets opened up, releasing methane that had been trapped inside. The concentrations of methane were elevated by about 5 percent, Froitzheim said.

Methane could also have a nonbiological source, perhaps generated by chemical reactions between water and minerals in Martian rocks or from reactions between the sun’s ultraviolet radiation ...

WASHINGTON — A surprising and mysterious belch of methane gas on Mars hints at possible microbial life underground, but also could come from changes in rocks, a new NASA study found. The ...