New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

A deep learning-based scheme is proposed for automated and efficient processing of teleseismic phases. 1. The validation with ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core ... This discovery ...

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

An artist's impression of a super-Earth exoplanet. | Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL–Caltech A super-Earth that ... Based on its ...

Many geologists attribute the great variation in the temperature gradient to complex irregularities in the structure of the earth's crust. Some even maintain that the interior of the earth is cold ...

The faraway exoplanet could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets with twice the diameter of Earth ... from a planet's formation that seeps out from its interior and into ...