Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

At the center of our planet is a very hot rotating ball of mostly iron and nickel (sorry Journey to the Center of the Earth ...

The exosphere is the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere, where space begins. It has almost no air, and satellites orbit ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals insights about the Earth’s core. While we often learn about the inner and outer ...

The Earth's inner core, long considered a solid and stable sphere, may be quite different. A recent study suggests that its ...

Whether convection in the Earth's mantle extends through its entire depth or if the mantle is layered has long been debated. Recent research suggests that spatially and temporally intermittent or ...

For a long time, it has been known that our moon does not have the same type of plate structure under its ground that the ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Storm Harlow made its way from the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic Tuesday. Here is our coverage of the impacts from the ...