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

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

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

In a groundbreaking studypublished in Seismological Research Letters, Australian National University (ANU) scientists have ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote ...

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.

Earth’s earliest crust may have looked a lot more like the continents we know today than scientists once believed. A recent study shakes up old ideas about how Earth's surface evolved, showing that ...

This type of flow form of mantle convection, moves heat through Earth’s interior and reshapes how we think about the planet’s ...