Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other ...

Imagine a hidden planet within Earth, buried hundreds of kilometers beneath our feet. This discovery is not science fiction, but a fascinating reality uncovered by seismic studies beneath Africa ...

Seismic evidence revealed that these fortresses, the size of a continent, were tougher and older than the dead ocean plates ...

The world can be a pretty mysterious place and we at Live Science love to ask and answer scientific questions about mysteries big and small: about ancient civilizations, our planet and our solar ...

The hydrologic structure of Shark Bay, altered by the formation of the Faure Sill and a high evaporation, has produced a basin where marine waters are hypersaline (almost twice that of seawater) and ...