Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

The San Francisco International Film Festival’s Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative will present a $20,000 prize to Lee Isaac ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

Beneath the steaming geysers and bubbling mud pots of Yellowstone National Park lies one of the world's most closely watched volcanic systems. Now a team of geoscientists has uncovered new evidence ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Today, Yellowstone remains a place of low volcanic risk. Sure, there are sometimes small explosions stoked by hot water and ...

Preliminary analyses revealed distinct differences in density, structure, and chemical composition between the Chang'e 6 samples and those collected during the Apollo missions and China's previous ...