A Rutgers researcher and collaborators have linked unusual geological anomalies to Earth’s molten origins and its unique habitability. For many years, researchers have struggled to understand two ...

The sun isn't always the gentle, life-giving star we see during peaceful sunrises and sunsets. Sometimes it awakens with ...

There is no life on the moon. The 2020 election was not rigged. I have no direct evidence to support any of these claims, but ...

Researchers have pinpointed a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby M-dwarf star only 18 light-years away.

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth's mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades.

As this month's string of powerful X-class solar flares sparked brilliant auroras that lit up skies across an unusually wide ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

Astronomers recently detected a stray quasi-moon in our planet’s orbit, but it's hardly the first stowaway to hang out around ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time 3 ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

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