Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two dense, giant blobs inexplicably clustered above the ...

China’s dominance of rare earth supply chains, and their critical role in nearly all of our modern technology, is a hot topic these days, and for good reason: 90 percent of processed rare earth ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, the most momentous event in the history of Earth occurred: a huge celestial body called Theia ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

To see Earth from space is to be forever changed by the view. Since Alan Shepard became the first American to lay eyes on our ...

What lies 3,000 km beneath us? A new study reveals how a leaking core may have formed mysterious deep-Earth structures, ...

A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

There are several frozen moons in our solar system, orbiting the gas giants. Some of them, despite having temperatures that would make Antarctica feel tropical, have liquid water under the surface.

In the upcoming issue of the journal Science, researchers determine the possible composition of Theia, the body that collied with Earth 4.5 billion years ago thus creating the Moon. The impactor’s ...