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The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

New research suggests that Earth's inner core, long believed to be stable, may be undergoing structural changes, including a ...

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...