A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the waters off Northern California and southern Oregon early Thursday near the ...

Deep below the Tyrrhenian Sea offshore Italy, scientists drilled into what they thought would be dark mantle rock—and found ...

Learn about a rare meteorite that may have separated from a protoplanet around the size of the Moon 4.5 billion years ago.

Scientists are often left piecing together tiny clues to understand how our planet formed. One of the biggest mysteries is how the Moon came to be. Around 4.4 billion years ago, a massive collision ...

Something enormous has been hiding inside Earth for billions of years, and scientists just got their closest look yet at what ...

The deep-seated bedrock of Bermuda, long assumed to have simple volcanic origins, attracted unexpected world attention last ...

Root explores how Earth’s gravity field is constantly changing and what these variations reveal about our planet ...

Deep beneath our feet, Earth may be running a planetary imbalance that has been unfolding for hundreds of millions of years.

A river of molten iron, more than 2,000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have pulled off something Earth scientists ...

The research, published in the Journal of Studies of Earth’s Deep Interior, analyzed the behavior of the planet’s liquid ...

Scientists discovered a mysterious reversal in Earth’s molten core flow beneath the Pacific using satellite data from space.

ESA satellites detected a dramatic reversal in Earth’s molten core flow beneath the Pacific, revealing unexpected changes ...