Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

It may be fun to watch astronauts float around inside the International Space Station, but the absence of gravity has its ...

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We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

One famous experiment conducted in 1952 by American chemists Stanley Miller and Harold Urey provided a possible explanation: ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

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The solar eclipse was particularly notable as it provided a rare opportunity to witness the Earth’s shadow cast over the Sun ...