The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

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

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

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Scientists found a vast ocean 400 miles beneath Earth’s crust, stored in ringwoodite. It holds 3x more water than all surface ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...