Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A model of Earth showing different layers on the inside One of the strangest mysteries about our Earth is the presence of two ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth. They are so large they rival continents in size, yet no human will ever ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

Earth’s inner core has long puzzled scientists because seismic waves move through it unevenly. Compressional waves from earthquakes travel about 3 to 4 percent faster along the planet’s rotation axis ...

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer. Located roughly 3,000 kilometers down, this zone sits just above the boundary between the planet's molten outer core and its solid ...

The ozone layer is a part of Earth’s atmosphere that captures some of the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light emissions. When the ozone layer is compromised, its ability to absorb radiation weakens, allowing ...

Water leaking into the Earth may be wrapping the core in crystals, a study has suggested. The study may help explain a weird area in the outer core that has long puzzled scientists. One expert said ...

Earth’s survival story has always invited grand explanations, from divine intervention to elegant equations in physics. The idea of a “newly found force field” around our planet taps into that same ...