Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer. Located roughly 3,000 kilometers down, this zone sits just above the boundary between the planet's molten outer core and its ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

This layer of the atmosphere is notoriously difficult to study, but new research sheds light on its mysterious processes.

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

The northern plains of Mars, marked by thousands of mounds and hills, hold significant evidence of the planet's watery past.

This article was originally published with the title “ The Plastic Layer of the Earth's Mantle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 207 No. 1 (July 1962), p. 52 doi:10.1038 ...