Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

Planet Earth's sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon. While experts have been ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a ...

It’s believed that mantle plumes remain in the same place as Earth's plates move over them, producing new volcanoes each time the plate shifts (as you can see in the diagram above). For further ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's ...

Space rocks to come close to Earth todayThe largest of the six asteroids measures up to 580 feet wideNASA has identified six ...

For many years, scientists have believed that the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its surface – moves like a giant ...