Quiz: How much do you know about the composition of Earth? Test your knowledge of the elements and minerals in our planet’s different layers. by Andy Brunning, special to C&EN ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...

How does the camera on the James Webb Space Telescope work and see so far out? – Kieran G., age 12, Minnesota Imagine a ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

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

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...