Not only does this research offer new clues about how Earth has maintained the delicate balance needed for life, but it may ...

The depths of the Earth still hold many surprises. A team of scientists has discovered that objects move horizontally in the Earth's mantle, nearly 1,864 miles (3,000 km) beneath our feet.

By analysing how the Earth's plates moved in the past, the researchers concluded that the Dani plume likely arrived during ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover solid rock flowing 1,700 miles (2,700km) beneath the Earth's surface.

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades.

Recent findings suggest that Earth’s mantle might harbor hidden plumes venting heat from the planet’s core, a discovery that ...

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

Earth’s magnetic field seems to correlate with conditions that helped complex life to thrive — a discovery that could aid the search for life on distant exoplanets.

New research reveals that Earth's core is leaking gold. Precious metals are moving from the core to the mantle and crust.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed — a really big planet orbiting a really small star.