NASA researchers have identified geological structures on Mars that are unlike anything found on Earth. From spider-like ...

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Crops don't generally thrive in desert-like ground, but 1000 years ago farmers in Israel utilised refuse such as ash and ...

A new book explores how one biologist’s work at the North and South Poles changed the way he sees the world and our place in ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have questions, though.

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer –or crust. It consists of two main parts ...

Jan. 10, 2025 — A new study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast, suggests that the composition ...

NASA is beginning several months of commemoration of the beginning of the Space Age and the evolution of Earth science from space. Sixty years ago next week, the hopes of Cold War America soared into ...

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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.

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