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A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

The chance that a city-killer asteroid will impact Earth in 2032 is steadily rising. Here's what you need to know.

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The surface of Earth's inner core appears to be dynamic, changing shape as it rotates, earthquake waves reveal.

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

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New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...

Researchers from Penn State University proposed in a new academic paper that human-like lifeforms could arise as a logical consequence of a planet’s development — contradicting the long-held “hard ...

Astronomers have peered through the atmosphere of a planet beyond the Solar System, mapping its 3D structure for the first time. By combining all four telescope units of the European Southern ...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...