Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

We know that beneath its crater-pocked silicate crust, the moon has an olivine mantle and a metallic core. Some research has ...

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

It is incredibly difficult to reach the mantle layer, located between the Earth’s crust and core, but by targeting the ...

Moon Goo Something is moving inside of the Moon. Yes, you read that right. A recent study from scientists at NASA and the ...

"The presence of an LVZ at the lower base of the lunar mantle may be most readily explained by partial melt in an ...

Geologists found an ancient seafloor trapped deep beneath Earth's mantle, which could solve many previous puzzling ...

"This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient piece of seafloor that subducted into the Earth ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence of a long-lost underwater collision that occurred over 100 million years ago, dramatically ...

Researchers say that two rivers merged some 89,000 years ago and gave the mightiest peak in the Himalayas a huge growth spurt ...

Deep within the Earth is a layer that can apparently impede the process of crust recycling as it has been imagined.