A recent studypublished in Naturepresents compelling evidence of ancient planetary material buried deep within Earth’s mantle ...

The Moon and Mars cannot sustain Earth's population of humans and other organisms. Earth's internal structure Earth's core is about 4,400 miles (7,100 km) wide, slightly larger than half the Earth ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

This fourth form is water trapped inside the molecular structure of the minerals ... this unique sample is representative of the Earth's interior composition is not known, however," Jacobsen ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

Other observational techniques including seismology and in-situ sampling have revealed the structure and composition of planetary interiors (primarily for Earth and its Moon, but soon for Mars as well ...

Earth's sun is revealing its secrets thanks to a ... of matter into space. Chemical composition of the sun Just like most other stars, the sun is made up mostly of hydrogen, followed by helium.

More than 4,000 naturally occurring minerals—inorganic solids that have a characteristic chemical composition and specific crystal structure—have been found on Earth. They are formed of simple ...