New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

The early history of Earth conceals many mysteries, one being the existence of a deep ocean of magma beneath the planet's ...

This process, called the core-mantle differentiation, shaped Earth's layered structure. But it was not just metals and rocks sorting themselves out -- volatile elements like nitrogen, carbon ...

The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Mars' magnetic mystery may finally have a solution—scientists now think the Red Planet’s ancient magnetic field only existed ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?