Far below the oceans and continents we know, Earth’s deep mantle appears to have stored far more water in its early history ...

The seafloor is far thinner than the bulky landmass, and temperature from within Earth is “quenched” by the enormous volume ...

Earth's deep mantle stored enough water in rocks to equal one ocean during our planet's early molten days, helping explain ...

Scientists reveal one side of Earth’s interior cools faster. The Pacific Ocean hemisphere loses heat quicker, influencing ...

The evolution of our Earth is the story of its cooling: 4.5 billion years ago, extreme temperatures prevailed on the surface of the young Earth, and it was covered by a deep ocean of magma. Over ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — Seismologists in recent years have recast their understanding of the inner workings of Earth from a relatively benign homogeneous environment to one that is highly dynamic and ...

Researchers are exploring the idea that one hemisphere of Earth, dominated by the Pacific Ocean, is losing internal heat ...

The global "hum" of the Earth is now helping scientists probe the planet's deep interior, a group of researchers say. Since this hum — called seismic noise, which is generated by sources such as storm ...

Seismic waves passing through the Earth have revealed that the inner core of our planet is now rotating out-of-sync with the layers above it. Update: As reported below, research from January 2023 ...

Current understanding is that the chemical composition of the Earth's mantle is relatively homogeneous. But experiments now show that this view is too simplistic. Their results solve a key problem ...

New research examines an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometers beneath the surface. New research led by the University of Cambridge is the ...

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Seismologists in recent years have recast their understanding of the inner workings of Earth from a relatively benign homogeneous environment to one that is highly dynamic and ...