Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Around that would be the rocky mantle, and above that you would get the solid crust which is what we walk around on. We haven ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...