There are two enormous provinces of unusual rock that sit at the bottom of the mantle, just above the Earth's core. One of them is located underneath Africa and one is under the Pacific Ocean. They're ...
How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid lifelessness, did our planet become warm, hospitable, and life-sustaining? The answer ...
Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a planet called Theia slammed into the Earth. The impact melted parts of Earth’s mantle and sent a massive cloud of debris into space. Over time, this debris came ...
A new study has determined with 99.9% accuracy that the Moon was formed 95 million years after the birth of the Solar System. This pegs the Moon as being a lot younger than we previously thought -- ...