Earth’s interior remains one of the most enigmatic realms of science, with its deepest regions yet to fully reveal their secrets. Recent research published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, takes a closer ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth’s magnetosphere is charged opposite to what was once believed. The area of space influenced by Earth’s magnetic field is called the magnetosphere. Within this ...

PACIFIC CITY, Ore. — Scott Burns, professor emeritus in geology at Portland State University, thought he had seen it all — until he saw a couple of photos of an extremely rare sand formation on the ...

In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Note: I'm traveling this week and decided to rerun a post I wrote nearly four years ago. I've edited a little bit so hopefully those who remember reading it the first time get something out of it ...

Some metals are in liquid form, the prime example being mercury. But there are also enormous quantities of liquid metal in the Earth's core, where temperatures are so high that part of the iron is ...