Contrary to what you may intuit, the Earth's gravity isn't uniform, and there's one place where it's much weaker than anyone ...

It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km) below the planet's surface. The next layer, the mantle, stretches about 1,800 miles (2,900km) below Earth's ...

The four planets are classified as sub-Earths because each one is about 19% to 34% the mass of Earth, according to new ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

Hundreds of animals, from tiny ants to mighty hippos, are shaping the Earth's surface as powerfully as floods and storms.

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...