How does the Earth generate its magnetic field? While the basic mechanisms seem to be understood, many details remain unresolved. A team of researchers from the Center for Advanced Systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers simulated temperature trends and tectonic plate movement to monitor their impact on mammals. Supercomputer simulation ...

Described as a "knowledge collider," and now with a pledge of one billion euros from the European Union, the Living Earth Simulator is a new big data and supercomputing project that will attempt to ...

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first test of asteroid deflection. (Johns Hopkins University ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4.5 billion years ago. The results, derived from a new computer model, ...

Scientists in Japan have confirmed through advanced simulations that an Earth-like dipole magnetic field can stably exist in two opposite polarities with equal likelihood. This discovery offers a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When a new supercontinent forms, it could be enough to send temperatures rising even more steeply than ...

Imagine if scientists discovered a giant asteroid with a 72% chance of hitting the Earth in about 14 years — a space rock so big that it could not only take out a city but devastate a whole region.