The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our mind-expanding science coverage, sign up to Simply Science, our weekly ...

Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar ...

A new study finds large amounts of “white hydrogen” may exist within mountain ranges, raising hopes this clean-burning gas ...

Europe’s land is still rising after the Ice Age. Scientists use satellite tech to track post-glacial rebound, gravity shifts, ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

Our planet, Earth, is structurally composed of a series of concentric internal spherical layers that are divided into: crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core and inner core. Every ...

But now, a team led by Rodney Ruoff at the Institute for Basic Science in Ulsan, South Korea, has shattered this paradigm, ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...