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 ...

Far be it from us to suggest there’s a parallel between the continental plate’s behavior and what is happening on top, but ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

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 ...