With admirable seriousness, Adrian Duncan explores themes of art, religion and decay in a deeply opaque novel about a sculptor looking for meaning ...

How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

The story of our planet's history is told by its layers and research suggests a new chapter may be about to be written. Boffins have found evidence that the Earth's inner core has another smaller ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

This layer of the atmosphere is notoriously difficult to study, but new research sheds light on its mysterious processes.