Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Earth is surrounded by an invisible force field — a vast magnetic shield generated by molten metal churning deep inside the planet. This magnetic field protects us from harmful solar winds and cosmic ...

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Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

In 2017 a group of eight girls gathered at the North Little Rock home of musician Correne Spero to take part in a music and ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

It only took Ed Albin a few steps on Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County, about ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

A product of the district himself, Davis went on to coach basketball, volleyball, and track and field while teaching physical and health education for a total of 36 years -- 33 of which were spent at ...

Two German physicists have unveiled a compact magnet layout that outperforms the famed Halbach array, delivering stronger, ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Geologic records reveal that magnetic field strength and oxygen levels rise and fall together, implying deep-Earth processes ...