Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and mantle we learn about in school, two colossal structures loom above the core like ...

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All the activity on Earth’s surface — erupting volcanoes, shifting tectonic plates, restless seas and myriad forms of life — depends on the two-part engine under the hood. Directly beneath Earth’s ...

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NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes across our planet’s land and icy regions. By Kenneth Chang A new radar satellite ...

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A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Union for Conservation of Nature reveals that countries are closing in on the target set in 2010 of protecting or ...

Earth's internal structure consists of four layers: the crust, mantle, outer core (liquid iron), and inner core (solid iron), with temperatures increasing significantly with depth, reaching values ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Shichun Huang, Associate Professor of Earth and ...