By analyzing seismic waves from earthquakes from the 1960s, researchers from Peking University deduced that the Earth's inner ...

The country supports some of the world’s most important satellites. But experts worry about its proximity to Russia.

Climate change is the most pressing problem humanity will face this century. Tracking how the climate is actually changing has never been more critical.

The atmosphere now has the highest carbon dioxide levels in the last 800,000 years – and global heat records have toppled yet ...

KS2 Geography. Biomes. A short video for pupils aged 7 to 11 investigating two of Earth's major biomes - savannahs and ...

Last year, astronomers announced that a planet orbits Barnard’s star. Now, researchers have confirmed the existence of three more.

A ntarctica isn’t a floating chunk of ice like the Arctic. Beneath its frozen surface sits a solid continent of mountains, ...

The aurora borealis has jumped to the top of many travelers' wish lists, creating a tourism boom in the northernmost reaches ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

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