Hidden in every tenth of a degree of extra warmth are hair-trigger switches built into Earth systems that are critical for ...

The hunt for habitable worlds has become a hot topic in astronomy. For decades, the search has been focused on planets in the ...

Researchers have been challenging the textbook picture of Earth’s structure, which says that what happens in the planet’s dense metallic core stays there. An analysis of rocks from Hawaii’s ...

This system is Earth’s structure, together with the internal workings and surface processes, that determine its evolution and current dynamic state. Our scientists study the Earth, and other planets, ...

In groundbreaking research published in Seismological Research Letters, a team from The Australian National University (ANU) has discovered that energy signals from severe winter storms in the North ...

The North Atlantic Ocean is seismically active, but the types of quakes and their typically low magnitudes make it difficult to study Earth's deep structure using traditional earthquake data.

Adapted from USGS by BernardM, Wikimedia Commons, DP A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer ...

This study investigated the population structure of Caragana genus plants, a typical shrub in the temperate arid and semiarid grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China. Shrub individuals were identified ...

This so-called Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is being reevaluated, and it might be more extensive and nearer to Earth than earlier calculations ... Researchers label this structure a ...