Chinese scientists push for cubesat swarm mission to fly by infamous asteroid Apophis China could launch a mission involving ...

For generations, a popular belief has held that the Great Wall of China is the only human-made marvel visible from space. But ...

Mysterious 'donut' structure is discovered hidden inside Earth's core - and it could unlock the secrets of our planet's protective magnetic field ...

A thin, yet dense, sunken ocean floor could be deep between the Earth’s core and mantle. The findings of a new study published April 5 in the journal Science Advances used global-scale seismic ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. Find out more in this BBC Bitesize guide for students aged 11-14.

Scientists have discovered a vast donut-shaped structure hidden within Earth which could hold the secret to why life was able to form on our planet.

Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the other under the South Pacific region.

It is the first model to incorporate Earth structure to forecast Antarctic ice melt, and it estimates how quickly – and differently – sea levels will rise across the world’s coastlines.

Anisotropy measurements of Earth’s inner core based on these waves’ travel times revealed previously-unrecorded data about Earth’s interior structure.

Earth’s heart may have a secret chamber. The planet’s inner core isn’t just a solid ball of nickel and iron, researchers say, but contains two layers of its own: a distinct central region ...

Since their relatively recent appearance on the commercial scene, rare-earth magnets have made quite a splash in the public imagination. The amount of magnetic energy packed into these tiny, shiny … ...

The Deniliquin structure could be up to 520 kilometers wide. This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed ...