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 ...

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 ...

Our observations honed in on the nearby fast-spinning pulsar, J0437-4715, which is 512 light-years away from Earth. A pulsar ... that one inner plasma structure is moving towards the shock front ...

In this way, something 'new' could be seen: "We found evidence that may indicate a change in the structure of iron, suggesting perhaps two separate cooling events in Earth's history." It should be ...

By analysing hundreds of shockwaves, scientists can build up a model for the Earth's structure that would explain why the seismic data looks the way it does. The most useful type of seismic ...

Now, I’m a geophysicist and know a lot more about Earth’s structure. It has three main layers: The outer skin, called the crust, is a very thin layer of light rock. Its thickness compared to Earth’s ...

Now, I’m a geophysicist and know a lot more about Earth’s structure. It has three main layers: Earth’s outer layers exert pressure on the layers underneath, and these forces increase ...

Now, I’m a geophysicist and know a lot more about Earth’s structure. It has three main layers: The outer skin, called the crust, is a very thin layer of light rock. Its thickness compared to ...