Deep beneath our feet, far below the crust and mantle, Earth’s metallic heart is not as sealed off as geologists once assumed. New research indicates that gold and other precious metals are slowly ...

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

A wind change increased flames during a planned ignition on the Ross Moore Lake wildfire in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on Friday, July 28, 2023. A wind change increased flames during a ...

Prior to retirement Simon Dalby was funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Tom Pegram does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey ...

Humanity has always lived with risk, but for most of history those dangers were local, temporary, and survivable. What has changed is that our technology, our numbers, and our impact on the planet now ...