Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

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

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 ...

Science is advancing and with it, fascinating and unique things are being discovered, as has happened in the Pacific Ocean. A group of researchers from ETH Zurich and the Californi ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere ... Now, for the first time, ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging the idea that these ancient crustal structures are immovable. Seismic ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.