The mysterious torus could provide researchers new clues about how the swirling liquids trapped within the Earth's core affect its magnetic field, which protects us from the Sun's extreme radiation.

M ade from 95% recycled materials, the Torus Nova Spin is what the company calls “a mechanical battery.” Grid power or solar panels run a constantly spinning rotor inside a unit about the size ...

Researchers from CU Boulder flew drones into severe storms this spring for project TORUS, one of the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigations of meteorological phenomena ever, with ...

Harvard researchers demonstrate how cloud-to-ground lightning strikes could have created the building blocks for life in the young Earth.

This remote area of the South Pacific, 34 times larger than France, is the graveyard for hundreds of derelict spacecraft – and will be for the ISS.

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made up of molten mantle rock surging in rhythm, the researchers say.

Astronomers using the Hubble Telescope have captured rare footage of a black hole tearing a star into a celestial donut. But this donut might give even Homer Simpson pause. The torus is the size ...

Smithsonian researchers usually take a boots-on-the-ground approach, studying ecosystems and geological processes up close in the field or through museum collections. NASA scientists often zoom out ...

Scientists discovered a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core, which could be influencing its magnetic field.

Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of kilometers beneath the Earth's surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet's liquid core.