Scientists with expertise in geophysics at Washington State University have developed an alternative pathway for the ...

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For generations, humanity has stared into the velvet abyss of the night sky, asking the same existential question: are we truly alone? In just a few days, that query may finally move from the realms ...

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The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

The planet that appears so steady beneath our feet is, in reality, subtly reorienting itself in space. As ice melts, oceans swell and groundwater is pumped from deep aquifers, the balance of mass on ...

The night sky is about to reveal a secret that has been drifting through the cold vacuum of space for nearly the entire history of the universe. On Jan. 22, 2026, a cosmic coincidence will place Earth ...

Astronomers have uncovered evidence of how the enigmatic gap in the size distribution of exoplanets at around two Earth radii emerges. Their computer simulations demonstrate that the migration of icy, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brazil’s abundant but largely untapped rare earth deposits are drawing interest from the US, with Brasília ...

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 ...