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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the fourth drilling campaign of the EU-funded, Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project, ...

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.

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 ...

A new study published in July 2025 tackles one of science's most profound mysteries—how did life first emerge from nonliving ...

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