This illustration shows how the changes in the electromagnetic properties of xenon, iron, and nickel under these intense pressures allow for the formation of XeFe3 and XeNi3.

Do you know where your xenon is?

Earth’s geomagnetic field

New data helps explain recent fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field

Earth's Layers

Challenging core belief: Have we misunderstood how Earth’s solid center formed?

Earth’s mid-life crisis – new research backs ‘lull’ in the geologic...

Diamonds with garnet inclusions can form at depths down to 550 kilometres below the surface. Credit

Oxidized iron deep within Earth’s interior

Earth experienced multiple large impacts; the high-pressure and -temperature conditions caused pockets of core and mantle partitioning that persist as chemically distinct today.

Earth’s core and mantle separated in a disorderly fashion

Several glaciers flow into the area of Young Sound where researchers have shown that heat from the Earth's interior warms up the bottom water of the fjord.

Heat loss from the Earth triggers ice sheet slide towards the...

This is Moho temperature at depths varying from 20 to 50 km.

New details emerge on temperature, mobility of earth’s lower crust in...

By analyzing centuries-old growth rings from trees in the Intermountain West, researchers at USU are extracting data about monthly streamflow trends from periods long before the early 1900s when recorded observations began.

Between the lines: Tree rings hold clues about a river’s past

pillow basalts from undersea volcanic eruptions,

Which came first: Complex life or high atmospheric oxygen?

Using JSC's JUQUEEN supercomputer, University of Cologne researchers were able to simulate the structure of silicon dioxide at a variety of different pressures. The image shows how the the shape and structure of the atoms change as pressure increases.

Computing the way to the center of the Earth

Distribution of intraplate earthquakes in central and eastern North America

Ancient weakening of Earth’s crust explains unusual intraplate earthquakes

Earth from space

Discovery about rare nitrogen molecules offers clues to makeup of life-supporting...

This is a reflected light image of a metal-sulphide clast in the enstatite chondrite ALH 77295

Meteorite analysis shows reduced salt is key in Earth’s new recipe

New research from The University of Texas at Austin adds evidence to a theory that claims the metallic cores

Trickle-down is the solution (to the planetary core formation problem)

large collision on the early Earth

Collisions after moon formation remodeled early Earth

This is a Wyoming portion of The Phosphoria Formation, a deposit that stretches across several states in the western United States and is the largest source of phosphorus fertilizer in the country

Less life: Limited phosphorus recycling suppressed early Earth’s biosphere

The mantle beneath Earth's mid-oceanic ridges contains heterogeneous blobs of material

Research reveals the scale at which Earth’s mantle composition varies

The movement of seismic waves through the material of the mantle allows scientists to image Earth's interior, just as a medical ultrasound allows technicians to look inside a blood vessel

Mysterious deep-Earth seismic signature explained

This image shows a visual representation of one of the highest-energy neutrino detections superimposed on a view of the IceCube Lab at the South Pole

How the Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks

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