Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also deforming around the edges ...

A research team led by Prof. An Zhisheng and Prof. Zhou Weijian from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese ...

Research reveals structural changes in the inner core's surface, indicated by differences in seismic wave pairs.

As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

Astrophysicists have long theorized that there should be planets out there that are, in size, somewhere between Earth and ...

In the race to meet the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Earth observation (EO) satellite data is ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

Dust off your old science textbook from grade school and you’ll probably find a familiar illustration of the Earth sliced in half, revealing the planet’s layers, from the crust down to the core — ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...