Something strange is stirring deep beneath Earth's surface. Just a few decades ago, human activity set off a slow-motion ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Many geologists attribute the great variation in the temperature gradient to complex irregularities in the structure of the earth's crust. Some even maintain that the interior of the earth is cold ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Establishing a direct link between the Earth's interior dynamics occurring within the first 100 million years of its history and its present-day structure, the work is one of the first in the ...

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.

How do scientists explore Earth's hidden interior — its crust, mantle, and core? The answer lies in earthquake waves. Like X-rays, these seismic waves travel through and reflect off internal ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

"But while the ocean was biologically dead and the land covered, the interior ... get the earth to freeze over," he says. An asteroid impact could do it, by throwing up a worldwide layer of ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...