Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.
Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.
China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...
Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...
Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...
Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...
The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...
Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...
Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...