Scientists have uncovered new information about the Earth's core: it may not be completely solid. Instead, it may be more ...

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

America is drilling the deepest hole in history to reach the centre of the Earth. Drilling the deepest hole in history: ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...

For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds ...

Incorporating solar activity predictions into detailed Earth temperature models may improve seismic forecasts and save lives.

Greenland’s Ice Sheet will surely continue its unprecedented melt.  But will the melting ice expose more rock that might push ...

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...

An international team of Earth and life scientists, hydrologists, chemists, and physicists, has found evidence showing that ...

The Earth is made up of different layers. The outermost is the crust ... Then there is the outer core, made of liquid metal, and the inner core, a solid ball of metal. At least, that is what ...