A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on the move, headed one day for New York.

This diagram shows the different layers of Earth's interior — the solid iron-nickel inner core, the molten liquid iron-nickel outer core, the layers of the mantle, and the crust.

New findings about Earth's deep interior have come to light, with two teams of scientists this week announcing separate discoveries of rare minerals trapped in diamonds. In one case, Maya Kopylova ...

Earth’s magnetic field acts like an invisible shield, protecting our planet from harmful cosmic radiation that would ...

Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally ...

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made up of molten mantle rock surging in rhythm, the researchers say. The plume ...

Eventually, it is understood that the Earth’s tectonic plates will come together against and form a new supercontinent, a process predicted to happen roughly 200 to 300 million years from now ...

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made up of molten mantle rock surging in rhythm, the researchers say.

However, in nature, water exists in many other phases. Under the immense pressures in the Earth’s interior, water can become what are known as supercritical fluids,” explains Stephan Klemme. “These ...

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 ...