South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...

A pair of diamonds that formed hundreds of kilometers deep in Earth’s malleable mantle both contain specks of materials that ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Their findings could shed more light on the layers that make up the Earth and how they are interconnected, coauthor and ...

Scientists found that carbon enabled Earth’s core to solidify. Without it, the inner core may not exist. A team of scientists from the, University of Leeds, and University College London has uncovered ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed of many thin layers that bring the flaky pastry to mind. Not only that—but ...

It is now thought that the source of this anomaly was a phase transition in which one mineral’s structure was altered.

Scientists trying to work out whether a star exploded and the resulting debris crashed into Earth 10 million years ago may be one step closer to solving the mystery. They discovered an unusual amount ...

Recently, the results of a 250-day experiment to refine a particular motion of our planet were published in the journal Science Advances. Lead author K. Ulrich Schreiber from the TUM Institute of ...

A massive asteroid nearly the size of a New York skyscraper will make a close approach, or pass, by Earth in the early hours of Sept. 18, according to scientists. They say the asteroid, officially ...

Kempe and Weiss’s research marks a breakthrough, the first natural evidence of nickel-rich alloys at the depths long ...