New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

In an analysis of the best available Earth systems models, Northeastern researchers found that by the turn of the next ...

The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

LaSalle Canyon in Starved Rock State Park near Oglesby, Illinois, is the kind of place that makes you question whether you’re still in the Prairie State or if you’ve somehow teleported to some ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key ...

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.

Once again, our collective heart aches as we witness the destruction inflicted on central North Carolina by Tropical ...