The PICA-X heat shield and insulation keep the inside temperature at 25–30°C as the outer layer burns and peels off during re-entry, protecting astronauts from extreme heat ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

Earth's largest waterfall, Denmark Strait cataract, is located in Arctic waters between Iceland and Greenland and is roughly ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Starlink already accounts for 40% of all the satellites ever launched, and each one releases harmful aluminum oxides when deorbited.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Underneath the Earth’s crust we know there is a hot mantle and an even hotter outer and inner core, but now experts say we may have missed something all along. Recently scientists were able to ...

A wealth of new information about Earth’s inner core has surfaced in recent months. Scientists now have evidence that the planet’s innermost layer is changing shape.

Of all Earth’s layers, the inner core is the most remote and mysterious. This solid sphere of iron and nickel is about 70% the size of the moon, with a radius of approximately 759 miles (1,221 ...