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

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

If future missions confirm sustained heat flow at both poles, Enceladus would strengthen its position as one of the more accessible environments for detecting extraterrestrial life within the Solar ...

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

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 ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

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. Advanc ...

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 ...

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

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun. Artist’s impression of the collision between ...