Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Deep inside the mantle (the layer between Earth’s iron core and its silica-dominated crust), there are vast areas beneath the Pacific Ocean and the African continent where seismic waves travel ...

This diagram shows how YR4 will loop back around ... It would cause a devastating impact, blowing a 1.2 mile-across crater into the Earth's crust. Physicists drew up a potential impact zone ...

But they tend to be spread thin around the Earth's crust in small quantities and mixed together or with other minerals, so larger deposits are difficult to find and costly to extract. Processing ...

It would blow a 1.2mile-across crater into the Earth's crust, and a terrifying simulation showed what the impact might look like. Physicists drew up a potential impact zone, cutting across some ...

NASA says Earth is in the clear from asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a small chance of hitting our planet in 2032. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice. In orbit around the white planet is a single cratered moon. You are gazing on Earth in the Cryogenian period, 700 million years ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia had lots of rare earth metal deposits and that it was open to doing deals to develop them after President Vladimir Putin held out the possibility of such ...

(Bloomberg) -- Lynas Rare Earths Ltd.’s first-half profit plunged 85% from the year before, as prices for the materials — used in everything from wind turbines to military hardware and ...