New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have questions, though.

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds ... "With the new high-resolution model, we can see such anomalies everywhere in the Earth's mantle.

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

To understand this, the team of researchers created a downward-bending model of the Earth’s surface ... a redistribution of stress within the Earth’s crust occurs when the plates break ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

Their model estimates that it took Earth 500 million years to neutralize ocean acidity enough to support life. While pockets ...