The boundary between the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is the familiar landscape on which we live ...

That’s the antipode, or opposite point on Earth’s surface, from my town. But I only had a garden spade to move the earth. When I hit rock less than 1m below the surface, I couldn’t go deeper. These ...

On top is the relatively thin crust where we live. Beneath that is the 2,900 km thick mantle layer ... life on Earth may have evolved. The core we drilled as part of the IODP project is the ...

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million years if we capture just 0.1 percent of it.

Your first challenge would be digging through the Earth's crust. It's the thinnest of Earth's three main layers, yet humans have never drilled all the way through it. As you descend, you'd soon ...

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 ...

Many parts of Earth are covered and protected by a layer of organisms called a biocrust ... dirt-dwelling organisms that form a distinct crust on the top of soil in arid landscapes," said Knowable ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

This thermal energy is contained in the rock and fluids beneath Earth’s crust. It can be found from shallow ground to several miles below the surface, and even farther down to the extremely hot ...