Science has a funny way of humbling certainty. Most of us carry a mental picture of how Earth works that was assembled in school, reinforced by documentaries, and rarely questioned afterward. The ...

Earth is the only home humanity has ever known — and yet most of us barely scratch the surface of understanding just how extraordinary it really is. Beneath your feet lies a churning iron core as hot ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year as winter turns into spring, I'm awed by all the changes in the natural world: the grass becoming greener, the trees ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to ...

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

Geophysicists from ETH Zurich and SUSTech, China, have demonstrated the dynamo effect of the Earth’s core in a model in which viscosity has no influence, as is the correct physical regime for the ...