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

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

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the unusually elusive column of hot rock shows no surface volcanic activity, unlike ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...

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 ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model. Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the ...

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 ...