Japan will from January attempt to extract rare earth minerals from the ocean floor in the deepest trial of its kind, the ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

We have successfully created a cross section of a giant rubber band ball using epoxy resin and a 60,000 PSI waterjet. This project has taken quite some time to complete. Music: David Cutter Music ...

In a bold move that blends science fiction ambition with strategic foresight, China has launched a high-stakes mission to drill into the Earth’s crust beneath the ocean. Using its advanced deep ...

Cross-section of the crust south of Perth showing dykes picking up 3.4 billion-year-old zircon from depth and bringing it to the surface.

Its remnants linger in the lower mantle, some 800 kilometers below Earth’s surface, and indeed showed up in the cross sections of seismic velocities that Hua and his colleagues made.

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

New Study Reveals Chemical Secret Of Earth's 4.5 Years Billion Crust In a newspaper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth's crust 4.5 billion years ago.

In a new paper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth’s crust 4.5 billion years ago.

Deep Beneath California’s Sierra Nevada, Earth’s Lithosphere May Be Peeling Away Evidence of lithospheric foundering, or the process of denser material sinking into the mantle, is emerging.

The changing of Earth's crust is a topic that is still being studied. Plate tectonics as they are currently known likely occurred during the past billion years, according to a 2021 study.