Earth Science

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer.The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called…

It often feels like the world is spinning faster and faster, just out of control these days, right? Well, I’m sorry to report that this visceral first impression appears to be wrong: New research suggests planet Earth’s…

A team of geologists has found for the first time evidence that two ancient, continent-sized, ultrahot structures hidden beneath the Earth have shaped the planet's magnetic field for the past 265 million years.These two masses, known as…

An iron meteorite from the core of a melted planetesimal (left) and a chondrite meteorite, derived from a ‘primitive’, unmelted planetesimal (right). Credit: Rayssa Martins/Ross Findlay Zinc in meteorites reveals Earth’s…