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Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and his crewmates survived an external fire on the Axiom-4 mission's Crew Dragon spacecraft, ...
July 9, 2025, saw the Earth spin through one of its shortest days on record a fleeting, nanosecond instant that passed ...
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...
As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large glaciers began to melt. The sea levels rose quickly—about 1 ...
During a brief but dramatic chapter in Earth's history about 41,000 years ago, the planet’s magnetic field nearly collapsed. What followed was a cascade of environmental and biological changes ...