New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists from Utrecht University, the UK, and the US has resulted in ...

Earth’s core is located below the middle layer called the mantle and the outer layer–or crust. It consists of two main parts–a liquid outer core and a more solid inner core.

Researchers report on ionospheric sporadic E layer (Es) activity during the Mother's Day geomagnetic storm. The team found that the Es layers were significantly enhanced over Southeast Asia ...

Glacial retreat caused a wave of volcanic activity in southern Chile as the last Ice Age came to an end, according to new ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational ...

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...

The new research could help us better understand our planet's thermal and magnetic fields. For a long time, scientists thought the Earth's inner core was a solid ball of metal, sort of like a ...

As a result, operators allow these devices to re-enter Earth's atmosphere, where they burn up partially or entirely upon contact with the upper layers at high speed.