Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...

Earth's rotation is speeding up, leading to shorter days and potential timekeeping adjustments. Scientists predict that by ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Earth's outer core is made up of liquid iron and nickel and surrounds the solid inner core. Its churning movements create Earth's magnetic field, which surrounds the planet and shields it from ...

The Earth is leaking. The good news is this isn’t bad news, because the Earth is leaking gold and other precious metals.

Earth’s core holds key information about Earth’s formation and evolution, and it contributes to massive planetary process such as plate tectonics and geomagnetism. However, understanding this ...

Ghost plumes are a type of mantle plume, pillars of hot rock which form when heat wells up from the boundary of the Earth's outer core, some 1,800 miles (2,890 km) beneath the surface.

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...