Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

Where is the impactor?” The question, raised during a planetary science lecture back in 2019, struck a chord with ...

Lavas from hotspots—whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland—likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth’s mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots published today ...

A team of Japanese researchers hopes to drill through the Earth's crust and reach the mantle directly. This would be a major achievement; our efforts to reach the mantle to-date have not been ...

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

The Earth’s oceans have risen and fallen over the millennia. But they have, on average, been relatively stable over billions of years. The balance of the deep water cycle—the exchange of water between ...

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...