Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious metals. This leakage could explain the presence of these metals in certain surface rocks. A team of researchers ...

Earth Earth's upper mantle is revealing the deepest effect of human activity. As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper ...

Magnetism inside Earth's core is approximately 50 times stronger than it is on the surface. Eventually, the entire core will solidify and Earth's magnetic field will cease to exist.

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...

A warming climate doesn't just affect dry land — it affects the ocean, too. For years, Earth's ocean has acted as a heat sink ...

The Earth’s atmosphere has a number of layers. The region we know best, because it is where our weather happens, is the troposphere. This dense blanket of air 5 to 9 miles thick contains 80 ...

Formed in the mesosphere, between 50 and 90 kilometers above the Earth's surface, these particles eventually fall back to the stratosphere, where the ozone layer is found. Metal particles ...