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

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

"Water abundance in the lunar mantle provides insights into the giant impact formation models for the Moon and plays a ...

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 ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...