Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.

An international team of scientists has unveiled the Flagship 2 galaxy mock-up. No, it's not a cardboard diorama for a school science fair project, but is instead the most massive and detailed ...

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For more than 100 years, scientists have puzzled over whether the Earth's magnetic field had already been generated stably back in its early days when its inner core was fully liquid - unlike it is ...

Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, scientists believed they understood its structure and functioning. But a ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed they had a firm grasp on how these waves revealed the rocky mantle’s secrets ...

The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has switched off its Piz Daint supercomputer. After more than a decade of use, the system went offline on January 23. Piz Daint, a 27 petaflops Cray ...

While astronomers and physicists are constantly engaged in unravelling the mysteries of space and searching for alien life and habitats on distant planets across the universe, there is another group ...

Scientists have identified unexpected sections of Earth's crust deep inside the mantle. (Image: Canva) The Earth’s mysteries never cease to amaze us. Recent discoveries have revealed ancient crust ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be ...