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

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

Scientists are confident Mars was once abundant with water, as seen in massive flood-carved channels, ancient river valleys, ...

Scientists exploring volcanic crust with underwater robots recently uncovered a completely new ecosystem. This hidden biosphere suggests Earth’s depths hold many more secrets, including ...

By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories ... then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which hold ...

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi developed the Emirates Lunar Simulant, a material mimicking moon dust. This breakthrough will ...

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 ...

Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...