Deep beneath our feet, something extraordinary is happening. Scientists have discovered that changes in Earth's core are ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

From Earth’s oldest rocks to glowing swamp lights and hidden ocean life, scientists in 2025 uncovered clues beneath our feet ...

A new analysis has found that Mercury has a solid inner core, just like Earth does. And Mercury’s core is just about the same size as our own planet’s. I’m biased here, but Mercury is an incredible, ...

First ever supercomputer simulations of Mars with a fully molten core could explain the Red Planet's unusual magnetic field. Billions of years ago, Mars had an active magnetic field. Mysteriously, its ...

NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. “For theorists, the discovery of a planet with ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

We've learned a lot about our planet's interior simply by tracking how the seismic energy released by earthquakes moves through or reflects off the different layers present beneath Earth's surface.

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An international team of researchers has discovered an extremely unusual, dense object, around 730 light-years from Earth, which they say is the exposed remnant core of a gas giant planet. The object ...

The 160 extrasolar planets discovered over the past decade constitute an odd menagerie. They include giant, Jupiterlike bodies with temperatures hot enough to melt metal, planets in orbits nearly as ...