Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Diamonds hitch a ride to Earth's surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant.

Buried nearly 1,800 miles below Earth’s surface are two vast, continent-sized structures that continue to challenge our ...

By trapping huge amounts of water on land, big dams built by humans have slightly changed how Earth spins and where its poles ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

A new model suggests “mantle rain” ensures we will always have a surface ocean Theo Nicitopoulos, Hakai The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been ...

For the hot end, an aluminium mount was pressed into soil, transferring the Earth’s ambient heat to the engine’s bottom plate ...