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

In China’s Taklimakan Desert, engineers are drilling a scientific well over six miles deep to explore the Earth’s interior ...

Macquarie Island in Australia is unique. It's not just because it's the only island in the world with this name. Nor is it ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

Learn how we know the Earth is round, and the science behind the shape of our gravitational field.

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For years, scientists thought Saturn’s moon Titan hid a global ocean beneath its frozen surface. A new look at Cassini data ...

Titan is likely to remain in the spotlight for the foreseeable future. Its thick atmosphere and vast surface lakes of liquid ...

Thunderbird is a single-module space station that is designed to expand to a volume of 12,360 cubic feet (350 cubic meters) ...

"There is strong justification for continued optimism regarding the potential for extraterrestrial life," said one of the ...

The original ocean hypothesis came from how Titan physically deforms as it orbits Saturn. As the moon follows an elliptical ...