New research reveals the source of this carbon – and the driving forces behind it – are far more complex than previously ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

A research team has produced the first direct experimental evidence that Earth’s iron core traps hydrogen inside nanoscale ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge tectonic theories.

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.

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