The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

Scientists are working to solve a mystery of Earth’s molten outer core, which lies more than 2,000 kilometers beneath our ...

The original story “ Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

Earth’s surface is warming, but far above the planet, temperatures in the upper atmosphere have been falling for years.

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...

Rather than being real human embryos, these are "embryo-like structures" created in a laboratory using stem cells. They ...

Deep under Antarctic ice, a 748-foot ice core recovered by the SWAIS2C project reveals past warm, ice-free periods on the ...

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' has a keen way of keeping scientists on their toes, sending mixed signals for its composition, ...

The answer is a gigantic “hydraulic jump,” and researchers believe similar phenomena may occur on planets like Mars.

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...