Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Earth is more than just a spinning sphere in space,it's a living, breathing marvel of geology, biology, and cosmic history.

Chipmatic is a factory building game where you control a mining robot on a mission to reach Earth’s core. Explore deep ...

Beneath Earth s surface, nearly 3,000 kilometers down, lies a mysterious layer where seismic waves speed up inexplicably. For decades, scientists puzzled over this D' layer.

Unassuming, icicle-like tubes could help answer mysteries about Earth’s climate. They are the world’s oldest ice cores, which have just landed in the UK after being drilled from the depths of ...

Like a dragon, Earth is hoarding most of its gold: research suggests more than 99 percent is in its metallic core – enough to cover all of Earth's land in gold 50 centimeters (20 inches) thick.

In a discovery that sounds straight out of a sci-fi thriller, scientists from Göttingen University in Germany have found traces of precious metals, including gold, leaking from Earth’s core ...

For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth’s magnetic field had already been generated stably ...

On August 5, 2025, Earth is expected to experience a slightly shorter day, approximately 1.34 milliseconds less than 24 hours ...

The moon causes a second phenomenon that affects Earth’s rotation on a human timescale. Beachgoers know full well that the moon’s gravity causes the seas’ daily high and low tides, and the solid Earth ...

This summer a few factors are adding up to make a handful of Earth’s spins—those occurring on July 10, July 22 and August 5—more than a millisecond faster than the average of the past several decades.

Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...