Deep under the crust and mantle of our Earth lies its core. Earth’s core was formed during the Iron Catastrophe, a major geological event where Earth was heated to temperatures above iron’s melting ...

What Earth do you live on? A round one? Flat one? Maybe your world is resting on the back of a huge cosmic turtle? What about ...

Billions of years ago, Earth was an uninhabitable rock covered in magma. Scientists are still working to decipher the tale of how it transformed into a blue and green orb teeming with life. However, ...

Slowed by four main parachutes in predawn darkness, the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft descended and splashed down in the ...

A satellite photo from July shows intricate snowy stripes painted across the Atacama Desert in Chile. The icy weather temporarily put the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

From global volcanic events to past El Niño circulations to the presence of microbial life, scientists at NCPOR have been ...

New research suggests that the Earth's solid inner core is softer and more dynamic than previously thought, changing ideas.

The sun sure has woken up this week, unleashing a powerful X-class solar flare on Jan. 18 that hurled a colossal, fast-moving ...

Seismic waves passing through Earth's inner core have revealed much about our planet's iron center: how it's changing shape, reversing its spin, is weirdly textured, and contains an unusual state of ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

An ice core is something of a time capsule, containing the history of the Earth’s past atmosphere in a frozen climate archive ...

Earth's seasons look very different at locations not far from each other, 20 years' worth of satellite data reveals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.