Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

About 99% of Earth is uninhabitable; in deep underground places with high pressure and temperature, even the toughest bacteria cannot survive. However, there are places where life thrives, from ...

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

A newly discovered asteroid named 2024 YR4 now has a 2.2% chance of affecting Earth in 2032 after recent observations.

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying attention to it.

Five asteroids are expected to make close approaches to Earth this weekend. A large asteroid could pass close enough to Earth within the next decade that there's a chance it could strike the ...

D eeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding ...

"With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth's mantle. But we don't know exactly what they are." There are other potential explanations for the newly ...