Something strange is stirring deep beneath Earth's surface. Just a few decades ago, human activity set off a slow-motion ...

Mercury’s surface is scattered with graphite, a clear sign that its crust once floated atop a carbon-rich magma ocean. As the ...

"But while the ocean was biologically dead and the land covered, the interior ... get the earth to freeze over," he says. An asteroid impact could do it, by throwing up a worldwide layer of ...

Today, about 85% of animals on Earth are arthropods ... there's so much anatomy there that needs interpreting. "Layer upon layer of exquisite detail and complexity. I'd always hoped to find ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

Interactions between the atmosphere and the interior ... and UCLA earth, planetary, and space sciences professor. “On the other hand, planets that are colder could have a separate layer enriched ...