The planet Mars is home to thick layers of clay that can span hundreds of feet. Since they need water to form, these outcrops ...

Deep beneath our feet, around 2,700 kilometers below Earth’s surface, lies a region that has puzzled scientists for over five ...

Situated between the mantle and the inner core, the Earth's outer core is a liquid layer of the Earth's core. It is mostly made up of iron and nickel, with little amounts of silicon and oxygen ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California released a study saying that satellites are significantly damaging Earth's ozone layer. As their materials burn up upon reentry, leaving behind ...

Scientists have discovered yet another layer deep inside the core of the Earth, a new study suggests. “Traditionally we’ve been taught the Earth has four main layers: the crust, the mantle ...

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Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer. Located roughly 3,000 kilometers down, this zone sits just above the boundary between the planet's molten outer core and its ...

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

Earth comprises four primary layers: an inner core at the planet's center, surrounded by the outer core, mantle, and crust. The formation of new enigmatic layer – E prime layer – at the ...

The E Prime layer has mystified geologists for decades. (Representational Pic) Earth is composed of four distinct layers, based on their density. The outermost layer is called crust, then comes ...