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

Picture the Earth’s crust and you most probably think of dense ... Their findings may also serve as a model for investigating similar processes on other planets, including Mars and Venus ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

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