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 ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

The driving force behind this volcanic activity is believed to be the “Iceland Plume”—a deep, hot column of molten rock that ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, where part of the Earth’s crust is “dripping” deep into the planet’s ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Four astronauts are back on Earth after a space station mission that lasted almost eight months. A SpaceX capsule carrying the crew parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico ...

The Earth is made up of a total of 7 layers which are- crust, lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle), asthenosphere (upper mantle directly below the lithosphere), lower mantle, outer core and ...

This layer, known as the D" layer, is about 1,900 miles underneath the Earth's surface, resting between the liquid outer core and the solid mantle, and varies massively in thickness across the globe.