Understanding how water moves through the Earth system is fundamental to predicting climate impacts and ensuring sustainable ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the amount of heat flowing from the molten metal of Earth’s core into a region at the base of the mantle, a process that helps drive both the ...

Mysteries of Earth deepen with data from recent experiments that suggest temperatures in specific layers of interior TEMPE, Ariz. – Earth’s interior is not a benign world that only stores the geologic ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through a solid iron lattice. This unusual behavior makes the core soft, matching ...

Earth’s magnetic field nearly collapsed long ago. What saved it explains why life survived and why the planet remains ...

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“When the first results came in, we realised that we had literally struck gold!” declared Dr. Nils Messling, a geochemist at Göttingen University, after his team uncovered a remarkable truth: Hawaii’s ...