"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 ...

Little Friends We've heard of underground parties — but this is ridiculous. A recently released study authored by microbial ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Many geologists attribute the great variation in the temperature gradient to complex irregularities in the structure of the earth's crust. Some even maintain that the interior of the earth is cold ...

When seismic waves encounter unusual structures in the mantle, changes in wave speed provide seismologists with clues about Earth’s deep interior. Over the decades, seismic data revealed that ...