From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...

Asteroid Apophis, or "God of Chaos," will pass close to Earth on April 13, 2029. This rare encounter offers scientists a ...

Interdisciplinary in scope, The Earth's Mantle is a comprehensive overview of the composition, structure and evolution of the mantle layer. Striking a balance between established consensus and ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites. We are unaware of most of them, as they burn up in our atmosphere before ...

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

The exoplanet orbits its host star in just over five days, making its "year" only a fraction of an Earth month. Its path ...

Earth is constantly getting pummeled by meteorites ... Using a telescopic survey to determine the composition of the main families of asteroids in the main asteroid belt and tapping into computer ...