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

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

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

The Earth's hidden ocean is 700 km beneath this continent. Scientists made a discovery that changes everything we thought we ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

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

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 ...

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

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

Underneath the Earth’s crust we know there is a hot mantle and an even hotter outer and inner core, but now experts say we may have missed something all along. Recently scientists were able to ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...