Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies ...

Using drones and Google Earth imagery, archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old network of earthen canals in what’s ...

Magnetism itself may have given our solar system the architecture needed for habitability. A team at the University of Oxford ...

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

It is our mission to advance our understanding and prediction capability of processes that govern the evolution of System Earth. This system is Earth’s structure, together with the internal workings ...

a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere — a viscous layer kept malleable by heat deep within the Earth. It lubricates the undersides of Earth's ...

I squeeze my body through a gap – clambering on my hands, knees and stomach – until the slanted gash in the Earth opens into ... to have their own weather system. Some are so deep, we have ...

Scientists believe Ryugu formed on the outskirts of the early solar system before migrating in toward the asteroid belt, eventually settling into an orbit between Earth and Mars. The team analyzed ...

with formal publication forthcoming in The Planetary Science Journal. While previous observations have confirmed that Apophis will pose no impact threat to Earth during its flyby, the encounter ...

This course is about the Earth ... System. The teaching is carried out by dedicated teachers who are researchers in the field. The course has a strong research and labour market connection, which you ...