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This study suggests silicon exists in the Earth's inner core with iron and nickel BBC : New candidate for 'missing element...

California, USA --- Rock Formations in Mono Lake. (Micha Pawlitzki/Corbis) From Times Online: Do alien life forms exist in a Californian lak...

From Live Science: Earth is a violent planet, and always has been. In fact it is much calmer today than in the past. As the planet continues...

The view of our home planet was taken from 700 km above the Earth's surface and is made up of thousands of images 'stitched' to...

Super-Kamiokande Built in an abandoned mine, the "Super-K" neutrino detector surrounds 50,000 gallons of super pure water with 11...

(Click Image To Enlarge) We have already overstepped three of nine planetary boundaries and are at grave risk of transgressing several other...

Meteor Crater, Arizona -- Photographer Stan Gaz was in Arizona when he came across a postcard of the Meteor Crater. From Discovery News: ...

Gatekeeper. The Bering Strait seems to regulate sea level during ice ages. Credit: NASA/GSFC/JPL/MISR team From Science Now: The Bering Str...

New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-r...

Planetary Skin Satellites join forces with drones and surface sensors to monitor the Earth NASA/Cisco From Popular Science: NASA and Cisc...

LIFE LINE: Earth's atmosphere, as seen from space, allowed life to thrive on the planet, but how it originated and evolved remains an op...

Photo: REUTERS From The Telegraph: The Earth's atmosphere and oceans which gave rise to life came from outer space probably on the back ...

Jim White, professor of Geological Sciences and the Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, ...

From CNET: CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A group of academics on Friday considered the ultimate engineering challenge: building machines to stabilize th...

From McClatchy News: WASHINGTON -- A vast pool of molten rock in the continental crust that underlies southwestern Washington state could su...

(Click Above Image to Enlarge) The image above shows an interferogram, a map of ground movements produced with measurements made remotely by...

A typical Alaskan sky, photographed from Eielson Air Force Base, 25 miles southeast of Fairbanks, displays auroral structures and motions th...

Life first appeared in our oceans during the Archean eon when the moon was far closer to Earth. The air was too toxic for life on land From ...

From Live Science: The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, dri...

From The Telegraph: Vast oceans may lay beneath the Earth's surface, new research suggests. Scientists believe areas of enhanced electri...