Deep beneath the Pacific near the equator, Earth’s outer core now flows east instead of west. Dynamics deeper within our planet’s core may help explain the change and what to expect in the near future ...

Amber heat alerts are in place across the weekend, and into next week, for the Midlands, eastern and south-east England.

Inside a doughnut-shaped reactor in southern France, a cloud of electrically charged gas recently burned at tens of millions ...

Deep in East Antarctica, scientists have recovered ice containing tiny pockets of air that remained sealed foraround 6 ...

The familiar concept of a planetary core, a small, dense metallic heart we take for granted, may be the exception rather than ...

Matter looks calm and solid, but its atoms hold immense energy locked inside tiny nuclei. That hidden reserve rarely escapes ...

Dr Sarah Alam Malik suggests Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa, may host conditions suitable for life, challenging traditional views of the 'Goldilocks zone'.

An asteroid named '16 Psyche' has a keen way of keeping scientists on their toes, sending mixed signals for its composition, ...

Deep under Antarctic ice, a 748-foot ice core recovered by the SWAIS2C project reveals past warm, ice-free periods on the ...

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

Scientists have identified a precise size threshold below which planets cannot hold onto their atmospheres, or any hope of ...