Oceans hiding within the crusts of distant moons are tantalizing targets for scientists looking for life beyond Earth ...

Scientists discover that muscles repair themselves by moving thousands of internal nuclei, a rapid process that is key after ...

New 3D models uncover hidden heat beneath Greenland, linking deep Earth processes to ice sheet behavior and future sea level ...

Data gathered during the Cassini mission was used to create the six infrared views of Titan shown above. They show Titan’s surface as it appears beneath the hazy atmosphere, emphasizing the moon’s ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

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 ...

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.

The Hidden Architecture of Earth's Interior Earth's structure resembles a giant onion with distinct layers, each playing a ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that intense pressure, materials can adopt unexpected structures and properties.

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...