Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

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

Buried more than 3,000 miles beneath our feet, Earth’s solid inner core was once thought to be unchanging—locked in place at ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet ... Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week since 2022, covering science, the environment, climate and business.

In some way which, as yet, we understand but vaguely, both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

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

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Deep inside the mantle (the layer between Earth's iron core and its silica-dominated crust), there are vast areas beneath the Pacific Ocean and the African continent where seismic waves travel ...