Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...

There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit: Left to right: Wysiati, ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

University of Chicago paleontologist and author Neil Shubin has been on multiple expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Those trips have produced groundbreaking discoveries about the evolution of ...

The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking ... destinations that make you feel like you've stepped onto another planet. No spacecraft required — just a passport and a plane ticket.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

including ones in extreme Earth environments that, on another planet, might be the norm. It’s no wonder the next generation of telescopes is so eagerly anticipated. “For the first time ...

This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how planets and ... formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. Both systems include a moon that is ...