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A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Mars, the dusty red planet we know today, may have once had ocean waves washing onto sandy beaches. New research using data ...

The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

A Deeper Look into Earth's Mantle Beneath your feet lies the mantle, a thick layer of rock stretching down almost 2,900 ...

New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...