Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust and the underlying mantle, a region called the ...

The remnants of an ancient planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon lie deep within the earth, according to a new model. In the 1980s, geophysicists made a startling discovery: two ...

Part of an ice core taken from a borehole drilled in the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream Lukasz Larsson Warzecha / LWimages via ETH Zürich Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an alarming rate, ...

Volcanic eruptions at Earth’s surface have significant consequences. Smaller ones can scare tourists on Mount Etna or disrupt air traffic. Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts.

Deep within the surface of the earth lies a gargantuan amount of carbon in the form of various types of microbial life, which hangs onto life in environments with scarce nutrients and extreme ...

Barely living 'zombie' bacteria and other forms of life constitute an immense amount of carbon deep within Earth's subsurface -- 245 to 385 times greater than the carbon mass of all humans on the ...

Scientists have discovered there is water deep within the layers of Earth’s mantle and it means Earth may have a whole other ocean. The Earth has five oceans, right? There’s the Atlantic, Pacific, ...