Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Until now, the scientific community debated the starting point of liquid mantle solidification: did it begin deep within the ...

Scientists at Nasa have discovered an out-of-place rock formation that has left researchers baffled about its origins. Dubbed ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Mars is about 140 million miles from our cozy planet. A human mission to that cold, rocky neighbor would mean being away from Earth for about 3 years. But the things those explorers would see and ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions of early Earth, the element niobium would become siderophilic, or attracted to metal, sinking ...