Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

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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 ...

Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system, may be home to a dazzling secret hidden beneath its scorched ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, deep soil layers that help purify groundwater. As water filters through this zone, these microbes break down leftover ...

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Humankind will soon lose a great deal of vigilance over the ozone layer, which shields life on Earth from harmful solar radiation. The impending loss of NASA’s Aura and the Canadian Space Agency ...

"Our Sun’s activity doesn’t remove Earth’s atmosphere and instead causes beautiful auroras because we have a thick atmosphere ... which has layers that behave differently, Proxima ...