Scientists believe that Earth's core is a massive ball of iron. However, a new discovery suggests that the Earth's core is surrounded by an unexpected ancient structure. A high-resolution map of the ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth's atmosphere, a new international study shows. The research draws on decades of observations to quantify that warming ...

The Deniliquin structure could be up to 520 kilometers wide. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This article was originally ...

Scientists at the Australian National University have made a highly unusual discovery thousands of miles beneath the Earth’s surface: a doughnut-shaped structure within our planet’s liquid core. The ...

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. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

"It is larger than the size of most anything to which it might be compared." The universe's largest structure, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, was already a challenge to explain with models ...

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is ...

Andrew Glikson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...