Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

(WHTM) — Throughout our daily lives, we may not think that Earth is fascinating and we may take advantage of living on it. But what is inside the place that we call our home? What is deep inside that ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird ...

Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional waves generated by earthquakes travel roughly 3 to 4 percent faster along Earth ...

Western Ontario and Jerry Mitrovica of the University of Toronto. Full size image available through contact Deep beneath Earth’s surface, continent-sized plumes of hot rock are floating upwards, ...

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Researchers have long suspected that the Moon was formed after a Mars-sized protoplanet, dubbed Theia, smashed into the primordial Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. The literally Earth-shattering ...

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