Researchers have identified what may be the first physical traces of primordial Earth, the early version of our planet that ...

According to satellites orbiting Earth ... result of changes deep inside the planet, close to or even in the liquid outer core. The researchers modeled various scenarios to determine if the ...

Workers at the drilling site for a geothermal energy plant in Neustadt-Glewe, Germany. Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images When I was a kid, I liked to dig holes in my backyard in ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

Team of geomicrobiologists walking to a sampling site at the end of an inactive tunnel in a South African gold mine. At this site almost 3 km deep beneath the surface, the researchers can access one ...

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet. However, ...

Imagine the formation of a black hole and you’ll probably envision a massive star running out of fuel and collapsing in on itself. Yet the chaotic conditions of the early universe may have also ...

Nicolas Flament receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Anglo American and De Beers. Annalise Cucchiaro receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Anglo American and De ...

Deep at the center of the Earth, our planet’s inner core is spinning, growing and—according to new research—shape-shifting. A new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience found evidence ...

Gigantic trenches known as gullies are opening up in cities in Africa, swallowing up homes and businesses, sometimes in an instant, a study has found 1. About 118,600 people, on average, in the ...

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