The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

In A Nutshell Two massive hot regions deep beneath Africa and the Pacific Ocean have been influencing Earth’s protective ...

Close to the sun, the solar wind, a steady stream of charged particles, accelerates until it cannot turn back. During a record pass about 3.8 million miles above the surface, Parker Solar Probe ...

Advanced modeling has revealed an Australia-shaped magnetic anomaly beneath the country's Northern Territory that holds ...

A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field.

Deep inside Earth, two massive hot rock structures have been quietly shaping the planet’s magnetic field for millions of ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

Close-up observations of the Sun explain how solar flares start, grow, and send high-energy particles racing through space.

A new optical device allows researchers to generate and switch between two stable, donut-shaped light patterns called ...

Earth’s magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen appear to have moved in sync for half a billion years, pointing to a surprising connection between the planet’s deep interior and life-supporting ...

Technology's job is to make life easier, but it feels like we often forget about this truth. These gadgets will remind you of ...