Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...

This explorer spacecraft is heading to a rare asteroid with a naked metal core. It could hold clues to how Earth began ...

They proposed that the iron might not be from Earth at all. Instead, it could be meteoritic iron, a metal from space, known to have been used in rare Bronze Age artefacts like Pharaoh Tutankhamun ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Inside the belly of planet Earth, a giant solid ball of metal is surrounded by a swooshing layer of liquid iron and nickel, making up the two innermost stages of Earth’s geological layers. These ...

An international research team has found that black eye makeup used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of ...

Materials science might seem very technical, but as a scientific discipline, it has led to many shifts in society over the ...

Antarctic research reveals how rare earth elements move underground through freeze-thaw cycles in desert environments.

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made up of molten mantle rock surging in rhythm, the researchers say.

International research team led by the University of Tübingen discovers unusual black eye make-up at excavation site dating ...

Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form.