so scientists rely on seismic waves to understand and model its structure. Seismic waves are shock waves that propagate through Earth's layers after an earthquake or explosive event, traveling at ...

A research team, led by Prof. Meng Qingyan from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

New research suggests that life could have the time and energy to arise on Earth-like worlds in the rapidly shrinking ...

The model developed by the team found that white dwarfs can fuel both processes simultaneously, making Earth-like planets ... shedding their outer layers as their cores collapse and forming ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...