"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Scientists have discovered that Earth's inner core, previously thought to be solid and unchanging, has experienced ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear to be hotter and older than other structures nearby that are known to be sunken tectonic plates, possibly being around 500 million years old ...

Nobody knew what they are, and whether they are only a temporary phenomenon, or if they have been sitting there for millions ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...