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

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

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...