Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

New images from the European Space Agency’s Biomass mission show how the satellite uses advanced radar to map flows of carbon through our planet’s most precious and remote ecosystems ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Experts detect mass peaking in several plant roots at two spots, showcasing that bimodality is possibly common in them.

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

A tectonic plate is a massive slab of Earth’s outer shell, known as the lithosphere. These plates float on the asthenosphere, a softer, more flexible upper mantle layer. Earth’s lithosphere is ...

A study, led by Australian National University geophysicist Joanne Stephenson, posits that the Earth’s inner core may, in fact, have two distinct layers.

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Our planet, Earth, is structurally composed of a series of concentric internal spherical layers that are divided into: crust, upper mantle, mantle, outer core and inner core. Every ...

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 ...

By analyzing the structure of the Earth's mantle, the team led by Jingchuan Wang from the University of Maryland used seismic tomography. This technique allows visualization of the Earth's internal ...