"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints the magnetic North Pole – where Earth's magnetic field points straight ...

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle, a slowly-moving layer between Earth’s crust and core. Because seismic waves pass more slowly through these ...

(Image credit: brichuas/Getty Images) These possibilities raise significant questions about how material cycles through Earth’s layers over time. The anomalies’ locations, far from active tectonic ...

Geophysicists have found sunken worlds in the Earth’s mantle — the planet’s bulky middle layer — that, according to both earlier imaging and understanding of plate tectonics, simply shouldn’t be there ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." An international group of researchers is calling on the United Nations to ...

New research has identified numerous potential subducted slabs in surprising locations throughout Earth's mantle — the second outermost layer of our planet. | Credit: Vadim Sadovski/Shutterstock ...

The Acaia Pearl S is the scale that can do everything, and then so much more. While designed for both professionals and at-home use, where the Pearl S really excels is with its step-by-step ...