It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km) below the planet's surface. The next layer, the mantle, stretches about 1,800 miles (2,900km) below Earth's ...

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...