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Earth's mysterious core is weirder than you think, and we're only just beginning to uncover its...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAn illustration of Earth's core.iStock / Getty Images Plus Earth's core has baffled researchers for...
The moon's heart of iron revealed for the 1st time
Space via Yahoo News· 12 months agoa diagram showing a cross section of the moon's core Around 20 years ago, scientists were able to use the rotation of the moon to determine it had a...
Earth's core appears to have reversed its spin. So what does this mean?
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe solid metal core of Earth doesn't rotate perfectly in time with the rest of the planet, and new...
Fact check: Laser beam tests done over water are skewed by refraction, don't prove Earth is flat
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe claim: Laser tests show bodies of water are level, which proves the Earth is flat Scientists...
How precious metals were brought to Earth and preserved in a magma ocean
Space via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA short video illustration showing a protoplanet impacting Earth. In turn, Earth glows...
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
6 million-year-old 'fossil groundwater pool' discovered deep beneath Sicilian mountains
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFresh water that trickled down into Earth's crust 6 million years ago became trapped thousands of...
When did the Isthmus of Panama form between North and South America?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe Isthmus of Panama connected North and South America sometime between 23 million and 3 million...
A Hidden Blob Of Water Has Abruptly Reappeared In The Atlantic
Women's Health via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFor 80 years, scientists have been aware of “equatorial waters” in the Pacific and Indian oceans....
What happened when the moon 'turned itself inside out' billions of years ago?
Space via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe moon underwent a reversal around 4.2 billion years ago, flipping itself "inside out" after a...