As the iron and nickel inside our planet shift, so does Earth's magnetic field, meaning the North (and South) Poles are also ...

Two recent studies used seismic data from NASA's retired InSight mission to shed light on what lies beneath Mars’ surface and what that means for the planet’s history ...

The global mid-ocean ridge, with a total length over 65,000 km, is the longest volcanic chain on Earth. Hot magmas are extracted from the upwelling ...

A new study published in National Science Review reveals that the asthenosphere plays an active role, rather than being passively involved as previously expected, in modulating seafloor spreading at ...

A joint research group has identified that the spatial scale of "heterogeneity" in the upper mantle, caused by a large-scale ...

Mars is not the pristine, stratified world that people once imagined it is a graveyard of shattered worlds, their shattered remnants encapsulated deep in its mantle for over four billion years. It is ...