Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

Scientists have predicted a mass extinction on Earth in 250 million years, wiping out all mammals due to extreme heat and ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

says Esquete. The expedition team hopes that the huge volume of oceanic and environmental data taken during from the site will provide some concrete answers—as well as revealing if any of these ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

To mark the birthday, she released two books, one titled “Cecilia: The autobiography of Cecilia Ibru” and the other, a memoir, “Oceanic Odyssey (1990-2010)”. In this piece, OSA MBONU-AMADI ...

Their findings showed a strong correlation between wet areas of the MTZ and continental intraplate volcanism, with 42%–68% of intraplate volcanism occurring over more-water-saturated MTZ ...