As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.

A phase change in post-perovskite materials at the so-called D” discontinuity is also evidence for long-predicted slow, convective flows in the mantle itself ...

On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as ...

Deep below the surface of the ocean, bacteria and critters that feed off nutrients spouting from hydrothermal vents met with ...

I was hoping that the U.S. would stay uninvolved, be an inspired peacemaker. There was and is enough bad blood between Israel and Iran. Washington and London, Beijing and Moscow, all had a duty to ...

Well, the verdict is in. The Moon is not made of green cheese after all. A thorough investigation published in May 2023 found that the inner core of the Moon is, in fact, a solid ball with a density ...

Miles Inside The Earth's Surface The insides of Earth remain as much of a mystery to experts as the outsides of the planet. Recently, a team of experts took a significant step towards solving the ...

The depths of the Earth still hold many surprises. A team of scientists has discovered that objects move horizontally in the Earth's mantle, nearly 1,864 miles (3,000 km) beneath our feet. This ...

The D” Layer Anomaly The lowest part of Earth’s mantle, the D” layer, sits 2700 kilometers deep, just above the boundary with the planet’s core. Strangely, earthquake waves suddenly alter their ...

The UK could experience more frequent extreme and prolonged heat due to climate change, its meteorological office said Wednesday, as the country braced for its first heatwave of the year.

Just above the outer core (brown) is the D" layer. (Keystone/Science Photo Library/Carlos Clarivan) The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying ...

Mantle plumes are mysterious upwellings of molten rock believed to transmit heat from the core-mantle boundary to the Earth’s surface, far from the edges of tectonic plates.