Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth’s structure: an ocean located deep within the Earth’s mantle. This hidden reservoir could rival the volume of ...

By firing tiny projectiles of iron-carbon alloy from a high-speed cannon, scientists have finally demonstrated that a weird ...

A team of geophysicists say that an enormous mass shifted deep beneath the Earth’s surface 18 years ago. As detailed in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters last month, a team ...

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical processes on Earth, leaving nothing from before. Or so we thought. Reading time 3 ...