A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Environmentalists and Newsom administration on defense, but pledge to use state laws and lawsuits to fight rollbacks ...

Mercury’s surface is scattered with graphite, a clear sign that its crust once floated atop a carbon-rich magma ocean. As the ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth.

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Researchers at MIT found that greenhouse gases are causing Earth’s upper atmosphere to shrink. Gradually, this will lead to ...

Scientists Baffled to Find Signs of Another Core Within Earth’s Inner Core, Say ‘We Have to Rewrite the Textbooks’ For ...

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere ... as the crust in the central region is unusually thick from being pulled down and is also colder than the hot mantle material typically found at ...

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