University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

How core-mantle differentiation influenced the distribution of volatile elements on Earth. Imagine Earth's history as a ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of history's greatest animal migrations.

The weather gets a little wild and weird on Jupiter. How wild? Spacecraft instruments have measured strong winds, tracked ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

Until now, the scientific community debated the starting point of liquid mantle solidification: did it begin deep within the ...

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...