Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

Seismic waves suggest the planet's solid inner core is being pulled out of shape – and it has undergone these changes over ...

Until now, it was widely believed that the inner core was a dense ball of iron floating at the centre of the molten outer ...

Others have suggested that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like and weaker asthenosphere, could be to blame. You can think of it like an ...

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The announcement, made during the launch of SOON’s general-purpose layer-2 (L2) solution, highlights the platform’s use of the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as its execution layer. Built on ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.