In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to describe data that could be interpreted multiple ways. In some cases, that ...

Learn why Yellowstone mysteriously does not produce sulfur dioxide, and what it means for volcanic unrest.

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When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their ...

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks move, melt, and recycle through the mantle.

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water managed to survive Earth’s transition from an early molten state to a largely ...

Earth should have lost its water long before life ever had a chance to appear. Bathed in a young Sun’s fierce radiation and ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...