Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

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

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to measure variation in the temperature on top of the Venusian clouds. They ...

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

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

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Antimony selenosulfide (Sb2(S,Se)3) solar cells are emerging as a strong candidate for next-generation thin-film ...

Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

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

The Inaccessible Earth: An Integrated View to Its Structure and Composition. 2nd ed. Chapman and Hall, 1993. DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-1516-2. Drake, Michael J., and Kevin Righter.

Earth’s core has two layers: a solid inner core made of iron and nickel and a liquid outer core of molten metal. The solid core is about 70% the size of the moon.

Underneath the Earth’s crust we know there is a hot mantle and an even hotter outer and inner core, but now experts say we may have missed something all along. Recently scientists were able to ...