D heat maps show how deep temperature patterns under Greenland help explain uneven ice loss and land motion, improving future ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

Far out in the North Atlantic, Bermuda sits atop a broad rise in the seafloor that has troubled Earth scientists for decades.

Earth is not warming in a neat, even gradient. While the planet as a whole continues to heat up, one vast swath of the globe ...

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New computer models now tie these deep structures to slow chemical leaks between the ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories about Earth's mantle. Advanced seismic imaging reveals these anomalies, which ...

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be showing signs of active eruptions from ice volcanoes on its surface, according to new ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

Two perplexing structures deep inside Earth might be ancient remnants of our early planet. Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research ...

A newly discovered tectonic "regime" may explain why Earth has active plates while Venus remains stagnant.