The team had to drill some 2 miles deep to get enough ice to study a 50,000 year time span. After conducting an extensive ...

Scientists have officially resolved a long-standing mystery about the Moon’s internal structure, confirming that its inner ...

A tiny new mineral named ehrigite, containing bismuth and tellurium, could revolutionize mining exploration and renewable ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

Professor Vincent Gauci writes about how methane analysis gives us clues about when humans first started to have a pronounced ...

E vidence has been found for a mantle plume beneath Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula. Unlike all the confirmed mantle plumes ...

The organization of life on Earth follows a simple, hidden rule known as “core-to-transition organization.” Hypothesized by ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...

Not only does this research offer new clues about how Earth has maintained the delicate balance needed for life, but it may ...

The depths of the Earth still hold many surprises. A team of scientists has discovered that objects move horizontally in the Earth's mantle, nearly 1,864 miles (3,000 km) beneath our feet.

Almost 3,000 kilometers underground, a seismic mystery has been solved as earthquake waves anomalous behavior is finally ...

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...