Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.
A newly discovered doughnut shape in Earth's outer core may reveal elements that help drive the formation of the planet's ...
Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and ... suggesting the Moon’s dynamo — a molten core that, as it rotates, can ...
You stand at the shore of a desolate ocean on a desolate world. As the dawn breaks, a strangely red star, 50 times larger ...
The story that the Moon was produced by a Mars-sized object slamming into the Earth is widely accepted, but a new study ...
Out in our Solar System there is still a class of cosmic objects we’ve never closely examined, metallic asteroids. They’re ...
Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's water cycle. A massive ...
White dwarfs are born when stars with masses around that of the sun exhaust the hydrogen in their cores. In around 5 billion years, the sun will undergo this process, leaving a smoldering cosmic ember ...
My aunt says if you tried to dig a hole to the other side of Earth, this is what would happen: First, you’d dig through loose ...
The implications of not understanding the formation of the inner core are far-reaching. Previous estimates of the inner ...
A research team led by Prof. WANG Wenzhong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has revealed that ...
A new mysterious donut-shaped region has been discovered in Earth's core by scientists at the Australian National University.