Deep under the crust and mantle of our Earth lies its core. Earth’s core was formed during the Iron Catastrophe, a major ...

Deep under the Earth's surface, there's a scorching hot ball of metal. Scientists just discovered that something very wrong is happening to it. Did Earth's inner core really stop spinning? What ...

China figured out how to sell EVs. Now it has to bury their batteries.

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...

A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger, according to a decade of measurements. The European Space Agency’s Swarm trio of satellites has found that a weak region in Earth’s ...

China plans to ease the flow of rare earths and other restricted materials to the U.S. by designing a system that will exclude companies with ties to the U.S. military while fast-tracking export ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The Earth’s magnetosphere protects life from deadly space radiation, but many aspects of its function remain a mystery. Scientists have long believed ...

Aurorae such as the southern lights, seen here over Antarctica, show the geomagnetic field in action. Some areas of the field, which shields Earth’s surface from charged solar particles, are stronger ...

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When you think of moons orbiting around celestial bodies, the first that naturally springs to mind is Earth's own moon. Certainly, that moon is ours – it is firmly locked within orbit around our ...