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The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...

Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

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By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird part-solid, part-liquid-like state thought to exist inside Earth's inner ...

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so ...

With modern seismic tomography, Earth scientists have discovered that above Earth's core-mantle boundary (CMB), about 2,900 ...

A small fossil reveals that the largest freshwater fish, Otophysans, emerged in the sea, not in rivers, changing the ...

Buried in the reddish soil of southern China lies latent power: one of the largest clusters of crucial rare earths is mined ...