For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

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.

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

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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 ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

The new theoretical model applies previously published ... as it involves almost all of the components of the Earth system: the atmosphere, the ocean, the crust, and the mantle,” Guo said. For their ...