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

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.

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

From the internet to the ozone layer, AI to the human genome, UC scientists have turned federal research funding into history ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee to manage the planning and organisation of a state burial for former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died on ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...