E xtinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to these processes have been widely studied.

A recent satellite image captured the reemergence of a unique, UFO-like cloud, known as the "Taieri Pet," which appears above ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

An unusual concentration of impact craters suggests that they may have been caused by the breakup of an asteroid that created ...

For many years, scientists have believed that the Earth’s mantle – the layer beneath its surface – moves like a giant ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various mantle sources linked to ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.