A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a planet within a planet ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into song — but these compositions are written with electromagnetic radiation, not ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

The climate on such a world must be beyond bizarre. A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away. The planet, known as HD ...

It bridges the gap between traditional magnetic classifications, offering practical applications in advanced data storage systems. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Altermagnetism was first theorized in 2019 ...

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This new model updates the location of magnetic north while also providing improved navigation for technologies reliant on Earth’s magnetic field. Updated every five years, scientists have ...