Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For ...

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

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Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

Strange radio signals detected by a balloon-borne antenna over Antarctica sparked wild theories about physics-defying ...

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In a study that closes a long-standing knowledge gap in fundamental science, researchers Boerge Hemmerling and Stephen Kane ...

For decades, archaeologists didn't know the purpose of Australia's mystery Earth Rings—until excavations pointed to spiritual ...

Separated by a distance of around 11 million light-years, these structures are thought to be "shock fronts" resulting from ...

The Voyager 1 spacecraft had flown past this moon of Jupiter, catching the first glimpse of active volcanism on a world other than Earth. Umbrella-shaped outbursts ... The data has reopened a mystery ...

Living in today's age of ambitious robotic exploration of Mars, with an eventual human mission to the red planet likely to ...

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