A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

The planet’s inner core was previously thought of as a hard, solid sphere. But a new study has found that its edges are ...

Earth's inner core has changed shape over the past 20 years. A team of scientists studied the core's behavior to understand why its rotation slowed down ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

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For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only six.

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...