Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows ...

Troposphere: This is the lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere. The bottom of the troposphere is at Earth’s surface, and it extends up about 6.2 miles (or 33,000 feet).

This layer, consisting of the closest few kilometers of atmosphere to our surface (and over 80% of the Earth's atmosphere, by mass), has shown an increase in ozone density.

See, if you look at the layers inside the Earth, We all live on the thin, solid outermost layer, called the crust. Even though it's miles and miles thick, everything we know, ...

Earth's outer layers can wander over its core, which causes so-called true polar wander. A model has figured out how Earth's bulge may cause the layers to snap back into place.

A mysterious layer lies beneath Earth's massive tectonic plates. Sandwiched between two rock layers — the rigid lithosphere and the more pliable asthenosphere— this thin boundary is like the ...

The ozone layer is a part of Earth’s atmosphere that captures some of the Sun’s ultraviolet (UV) light emissions. When the ozone layer is compromised, its ability to absorb radiation weakens ...

One of geology's basic principles is that the Earth is made up of four layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core. But this may be squashed in light of a new study that suggests ...

I have downloaded Google Earth free version 3 times now and it doesnt load all the layers. I see the earth with borders and roads but do not see any terrain at all.

This lowest layer contains more than 80 percent of the massof the atmosphere and almost all of the water vapor, clouds, and precipitation. Several dark cloud layers are visible within this layer ...

In high school science class, textbooks often feature a recognizable image of the Earth and all its layers—currently, that’s the crust, outer and inner mantle, and outer and inner core.