Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

A unique ice core is currently being examined in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory: the oldest continuous ice core that has ever been drilled on Earth. As part of the EU-funded Beyond ...

Researchers have found clouds of cold gas embedded deep within larger, superheated gas clouds - or Fermi bubbles - at the Milky Way's center. The ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

Scientists have managed to turn Laschamps event, or the cosmic event when Earth's magnetic poles switched places – the North ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover faced a challenging Mars rock named “Kenmore,” revealing valuable insights into Martian geology.

Scientists have uncovered evidence that precious metals like gold are leaking from Earth’s core into the mantle, ultimately ...

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

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