New research reveals that early Earth concealed a deep ocean of magma, which may explain today's anomalies in the planet's ...

Researchers are now trying to understand the "innermost inner core" of the Earth by studying how seismic waves travel through ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

Think of them as the tough "core" of continents ... it down into the Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust.

Mars' magnetic mystery may finally have a solution—scientists now think the Red Planet’s ancient magnetic field only existed ...