Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Our planet's interior is much too deep and hot to explore with probes, so scientists rely on seismic waves to understand and model its structure. Seismic waves are shock waves tha ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet ...

So-called modern progress has depended on exploiting the Earth’s resources as if they had no end. We’ve lost touch with the ancient wisdom that we are partners with Earth and all life on it. Now is ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those materials might be found.

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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