These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

The 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, with shaking felt across Virginia and beyond.

From these indirect observations, scientists have calculated that the scorchingly hot inner core, with temperatures ...

Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of El Salvador. It caused the shaking of residences across the country.

A new high-resolution computer model shows rocks that are colder, or have a different composition, in Earth's mantle where ...

For decades, researchers in and around Yellowstone National Park have used seismic waves – imagine giving the region an MRI – ...

Geologists from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology, studying the Earth's interior using seismic waves, ...