Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Prehistoric times were pretty strange, to put it lightly, and the same could be said of the species from that period. Here ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

What would happen if a 500-meter asteroid hit Earth? Scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics modeled the aftermath, ...

Explore the impact of stellar flares on the potential for alien life. Discover how higher levels of UV radiation can both ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures HH 30’s disc, revealing dust movement, jets, and planetary formation processes.

"Exploring the clouds, say by balloon, can be done with technology that's ready today," Byrne told Space.com. "We could ...