Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

For over 50 years, researchers have been puzzling over a strange zone deep inside Earth—the so-called D" layer, around 2,700 kilometers beneath our feet.

Underneath our feet, deep down below the Earth’s crust and its other layers lies the core, or where the planet’s magnetic fields are generated. However, experts now say it’s changing and ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific.

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We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs ...

Deep within the mantle — the layer between Earth’s iron core and its rocky crust — lie two vast regions beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa where seismic waves slow down significantly. Known as ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity ...

Though it might not seem like it on a cold day in winter, the Earth is actually technically inside the atmosphere of the Sun. But evidence outlined in a recent paper suggests it hasn't always been ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...