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

Earth's rocky layers are mysteriously low in nitrogen compared with carbon and argon. A scientific team explored our planet's molten youth using advanced quantum mechanical simulations, revealing ...

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

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

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

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

A deep learning-based scheme is proposed for automated and efficient processing of teleseismic phases. 1. The validation with ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

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

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