Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Unprecedented Seismic Activity Seismic activity is often the first indicator of changes deep within the Earth. Recently, ...

The Ticking Clock of Earth’s Core Collapse ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The ice core spans at least 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history. Air bubbles and particles trapped inside the ice could also reveal why the planet’s ice ages suddenly became longer ...

One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar sheets: ice cores. These frozen time capsules preserve air bubbles from thousands of ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

The history of Earth’s climate is written within ice. Drilling vertically into ice and extracting a core is akin to measuring how old a tree is by counting a stump’s rings. But ice contains more ...