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

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

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

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 ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, ...

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...