As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle... | Earth And The ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...