Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded ... malleable than it is at deeper levels. “It’s almost science fiction to visualize what’s happening on the surface ...

The Earth is made up of different layers. The outermost is the crust ... Visualizing what is happening at the inner core is "almost science fiction," Vidale said to CNN, because it is "so ...

Imminent loss of NASA's Aura and Canada's SCISAT will severely diminish scientists’ ability to monitor ozone-depleting substances in the stratosphere.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

These clips are from the BBC series, Primary Focus Science and Science Clips, Earth, Sun and Moon. Our main source of natural light is the Sun. Nuclear reactions at the core of the Sun create ...

Rapley outlines the Antarctic’s incredibly important role in stabilizing Earth’s climate. As a professor of climate science at University College London and the longtime director of the ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...