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

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Physicists found that clocks on Mars will tick 477 microseconds (millionths of a second) faster than on Earth per day, on ...

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

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

Of the seven Earth-sized worlds orbiting the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, one planet in particular has attracted the attention ...

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 ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

New thick, high-grade drill results from St George Mining’s Araxá rare earth and niobium project in Brazil set the stage for ...

As "Paradise" Season 2 picks up with Sterling K. Brown's Xavier searching for his wife, the trailer sees the agent's chaotic ...

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

Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way up to the surface during the formation of volcanic islands like Hawaii, a new study ...