When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Illustration of a stage in the formation of the Earth-moon system. The Earth had recently formed ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

a 3d rendering of the earth's inner mantle shows red and blue blobs permeating a transparent layer. Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those ...

Scientists have finally solved the mystery behind two strange events that shook the entire planet for nine days straight. Their findings close the book on a years-long effort to trace the seismic ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. The idea of plate tectonics – which describes how Earth's crust is ...

Scientists are unraveling the mysteries of "steam worlds"—exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes that are rich in water but orbit ...

A mysterious cosmic object is sending pulses of radio and X-ray waves to Earth every 44 minutes, leaving astronomers baffled and eager for answers. Astronomers have discovered a cosmic anomaly that’s ...

Scientists using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered an exoplanet, which NASA defines as “any planet beyond our solar system.” What's False However, the “strange signals” ...