There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

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While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints the magnetic North Pole – where Earth's magnetic field points straight ...

Sir James Clark Ross discovered magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada. British scientists have recently revealed that Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting towards Russia at an ...

They extend nearly 1000 kilometres up from the outer core into the lower mantle, a slowly-moving layer between Earth’s crust and core. Because seismic waves pass more slowly through these ...

“With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth’s mantle. But we don’t know exactly what they are.” The anomalies may be ancient subducted slabs—fragments of ...

Hidden beneath the icy surface of the largest island in the world are large deposits of rare earth elements (REEs), materials required for manufacturing batteries, renewable energy technology and ...

Geophysicists have found sunken worlds in the Earth’s mantle — the planet’s bulky middle layer — that, according to both earlier imaging and understanding of plate tectonics, simply shouldn’t be there ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space. They hope the project will help shed light on some little ...

China’s push to reduce or cease exports of some critical materials such as germanium and gallium to the United States last year is already having an impact on their trade, while a potential ...