Two vast, mysterious blobs of hot rock around Earth’s core may have been instrumental in producing Earth’s magnetic field and caused it to be slightly wonky for millions of years. Scientists have ...

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Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

For nearly a decade information about the life of Jeffrey Epstein has emerged in dribs and drabs. Now, in the wake of an American law passed in November compelling the release of prosecutors’ files, ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

Scientists and philosophers studying the mind have discovered how little we know about our inner experiences What was I thinking? This is not as easy or straightforward a question as I would have ...

Much of our understanding of Earth's past is derived from stratigraphic records exposed in rock outcrops or recovered from drilled cores. These records span immense time intervals, from thousands to ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if aliens were secretly living inside Earth, revealing underground civilizations, resources, and detection challenges. Study of 27.8M Americans ...

Billions of stars fill our galaxy that become visible at certain times of year. And in the U.S., that time, known as "Milky ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

A closer look at the planets around a star called LHS 1903 may just flip our understanding of how planetary systems form. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have discovered a star system that’s out of ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...