Scientists discover hidden "ghost plume" that is so powerful that it is physically warping the internal layers of the planet ...

Deep inside planets like Uranus and Neptune, scientists may have uncovered a bizarre new state of matter where atoms behave ...

Under the right conditions, 1g of oyster shells can capture and lock away up to around 1.5g of the rare earth elements ...

Once darkness falls, solar panels stop generating electricity, creating a gap between when energy is produced and when it’s ...

The moon is Earth's only natural satellite, a rocky celestial body that orbits our planet at an average distance of about 384 ...

Deep within massive rocky exoplanets, hidden oceans of molten rock may be generating powerful magnetic fields in an ...

Scientists have identified a new "superionic" state of carbon and hydrogen that may exist deep inside Uranus and Neptune.

Deep within Earth, subtle variations in how seismic waves travel are revealing a hidden pattern of deformation in the planet’s lowest mantle layer.

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

A rare type of deep underground earthquake occurring in the Earth’s mantle, which can trigger dangerous surface quakes, has finally been isolated and mapped by Stanford researchers. The team’s global ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...