Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust and the underlying mantle, a region called the ...

“A diamond is forever.” That iconic slogan, coined for a highly successful advertising campaign in the 1940s, sold the gemstones as a symbol of eternal commitment and unity. But our new research, ...

Scientists digging deep into the Earth's mantle recently made an unexpected discovery. Five hundred and fifty kilometers below the Earth's surface, they found highly oxidized iron, similar to the rust ...

The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon lie deep within the earth, according to a new model. In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two ...

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made a groundbreaking discovery, revealing traces of a lost world deep within Earth. This finding suggests the presence of ...

Volcanic eruptions at Earth’s surface have significant consequences. Smaller ones can scare tourists on Mount Etna or disrupt air traffic. Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts.

Part of an ice core taken from a borehole drilled in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream Lukasz Larsson Warzecha / LWimages via ETH Zürich Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate, ...

Scientists have discovered there is water deep within the layers of Earth’s mantle and it means Earth may have a whole other ocean. The Earth has five oceans, right? There’s the Atlantic, Pacific, ...