Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.

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

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of ...

Using advanced computer simulations, researchers have reconstructed the geological past of the region, uncovering a ...

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor ... of their high temperatures and positions in the deep mantle on opposite sides of the Earth, the LLVPs affect how heat leaves the Earth's ...

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

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

Researchers explore the likelihood that ... and mantle. In Chaos, by AIP Publishing, researchers from the University of Tsukuba and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...