Two massive, mysterious structures have been discovered beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean, and no one knows what they are ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Albert Einstein himself thought that the eponymous Einstein ring would be impossible to observe, but the Euclid telescope has ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Scientists simulated what would happen if a medium-size asteroid were to strike Earth. One of those space rocks, asteroid ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper is well on its way to Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, set to arrive in 2030. While its science instruments ...

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Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth's crust sinking into the mantle beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains. This phenomenon, occurring over millions of years, helps explain ...

Fragments of the asteroid Bennu, carefully collected and ferried to Earth by a robotic spacecraft ... probably when watery ponds on Bennu’s parent asteroid evaporated and left behind a crust of ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving scientists to guess at how the eons-long process unfolds. Using nearly four ...

Cooke told us that that’s very common in our area and explained that one of the characteristics of the earth’s crust in the northeast is that it is very cold and cold rocks tend to transmit ...