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

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 ...

The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North ... which are regions of Earth's continental crust and upper mantle that have mostly remained intact for billions of ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...

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

Soil and rocks returned from the moon's far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth ...

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

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

This is probably the deepest recorded example of human activity changing the solid inner Earth ... as viscous rocks in the upper mantle crept in to fill the void. “The unbending creates ...

Researchers found that a large funnel-shaped zone beneath the Midwest is pulling rocks from across North America toward it horizontally before they sink into the Earth’s mantle. This process is ...