Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...