Scientists exploring volcanic crust with underwater robots recently uncovered a completely new ecosystem. This hidden biosphere suggests Earth’s depths hold many more secrets, including ...

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 ...

That hasn’t stopped them migrating somewhat, for example with the African LLVP moving south ... Each time, we find the Pacific LLVP to be enriched in subducted oceanic crust, implying that Earth's ...

In this diagram, the red lines represent the edges of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust. For example, iron is mined from the Earth's crust in quarries. It is a finite resource ...

South America has a great example of a convergent plate boundary ... The plates of the Earth's crust are constantly moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...