A thick layer of more than 12 miles of rock may explain why Bermuda seems to float above the surrounding ocean.
Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...
When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...
New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...
The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.