Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be ...

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

The core of the Earth is undergoing surprise structural changes, researchers believe. A new study has seen scientists unexpectedly find that the inner core of our planet is changing its physical ...

By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird ...

The mystery of two “super-continent”-sized structures buried deep in the Earth’s mantle has produced a new twist after scientists got a closer look at their composition, suggesting they might be even ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific. They are so ...

Is there something strange and alien confined deep inside the Earth? Is it trying to break free and escape into the heavens? No, of course not. But in a new soundscape from the ESA, it sure sounds ...

Western Ontario and Jerry Mitrovica of the University of Toronto. Full size image available through contact Deep beneath Earth’s surface, continent-sized plumes of hot rock are floating upwards, ...

Dominic has a degree from the University of Winchester in film production and is currently studying for his second degree in biology at the Open University. Dominic has a degree from the University of ...