The San Francisco International Film Festival‘s Sloan Science in Cinema Initiative will present a $20,000 prize to Lee Isaac Chung‘s film “Twisters,” along with a $5,000 award to Cyprien Vial’s movie ...

Early in the formation of Earth, an ocean of magma covered the planet’s surface and stretched thousands of miles deep into its core. The rate at which that “magma ocean” cooled affected the formation ...

We may have ancient magma oceans to thank for Earth’s breathable air. Shortly after the planet’s formation about 4.5 billion years ago, the mantle somehow became much richer in oxygen than it was ...

New experiments provide insight into how Earth-type planets form when giant asteroids or planetesimals collide and how the interiors of such planets develop. Researchers at Hiroshima University, Osaka ...