For more than six decades, astronomers have listened for possible signals from extraterrestrial civilisations, with no confirmed detection to date. A .

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

Atmos reports on the significance of understanding rocks to address climate issues.

The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference ...

Imagine someone has chronic pain. One doctor focuses on the body part that hurts and keeps trying to fix that single symptom.

The mysterious plumes, it seems, are being triggered by a cryptic process whose origins lie in Earth's fiery mantle.

Researchers uncover how slow changes deep inside Earth created Antarctica’s gravity anomaly and may even connect to ancient ...

Researchers studying the deep biosphere, Earth’s largest ecosystem, have found evidence that life thriving miles below the ...

Scientists at Antarctic stations are battling extreme cold to capture a rare solar eclipse. This high-stakes mission could ...

The Amazon rainforest is so big that it makes its own climate. As they photosynthesise and transpire, its billions of trees collectively produce enough moisture to form clouds. These, by some ...

The Sterling Hill Mining Museum sits atop the world’s most diverse fluorescent mineral deposit, and if you haven’t been there yet, you’re missing out on one of the most spectacular natural phenomena ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...